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108 Post author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 01:28AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2012 08:47:49PM 0 points [-]

if the referenced norms seem wrong to you, then you ought not to think of Dworkin as an idiot.

I don't follow. Dworkin criticises something stupid, that doesn't make ver not an idiot.

Comment author: TimS 16 January 2012 10:15:14PM 4 points [-]

Dworkin is from the school of thought that helped us notice those particular costs of the setup. If post-modern thought doesn't appear, we might not notice any of the problems it identified.

I suggest that post-modern thought looks foolish now because more mainstream thought appropriated and applied most of its greatest insights. What "remains" of post-modern thought is much less insightful.