[governance] disentangling philosophy from ideology (was Re: Fwd: Why do US and EU trade...)

[Norbert Bollow]

On 3 Mar 2013, Diego Rafael Canabarro <diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2013, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>
> > On 21 February 2013 Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
> >
> > > policy is driven by philosophy or ideology.
> >
> > A big difference between the two. Ideology is driven by a
> > relatively blind belief system. Philosophy takes more facts into
> > account, even if they conflict with ideology.
>
> How to disentangle both?

I would suggest that those who are interested in figuring out which of
their own views fall into which category can achieve that by means of
participating in deliberative multistakeholder processes, provided that
the participants of those processes are diverse enough.

I don't think that the process of disentangling can be forced on anyone.

But maybe eventually we will have a sufficiently mature public opinion
that when policies are proposed that are based on a tangled mess of
philosophy and ideology, they will quickly be recognized for what they
are, and consequently distrusted.

Greetings,
Norbert

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