Dear Norbert,<div><br></div><div>I don't think it is possible to disentangle philosophy/ideology and policy-making. In a political context, normative horizons (both philosophically- and ideologically-based ones, or a mix of both) always inform policy-decisions. That is something clearly observable by the context of the different comments that travel through this list.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Diego</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 3 Mar 2013, Diego Rafael Canabarro <<a href="mailto:diegocanabarro@gmail.com">diegocanabarro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 21 Feb 2013, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On 21 February 2013 Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > policy is driven by philosophy or ideology.<br>
> ><br>
> > A big difference between the two. Ideology is driven by a<br>
> > relatively blind belief system. Philosophy takes more facts into<br>
> > account, even if they conflict with ideology.<br>
><br>
> How to disentangle both?<br>
<br>
I would suggest that those who are interested in figuring out which of<br>
their own views fall into which category can achieve that by means of<br>
participating in deliberative multistakeholder processes, provided that<br>
the participants of those processes are diverse enough.<br>
<br>
I don't think that the process of disentangling can be forced on anyone.<br>
<br>
But maybe eventually we will have a sufficiently mature public opinion<br>
that when policies are proposed that are based on a tangled mess of<br>
philosophy and ideology, they will quickly be recognized for what they<br>
are, and consequently distrusted.<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
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