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

[Diego Rafael Canabarro]

Dear Norbert,

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.

Best regards
Diego

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> 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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