Posted by Jost on September 13, 2006, at 22:00:07
In reply to Re: internet and the manufacture of madness..., posted by Estella on September 11, 2006, at 2:55:39
Did you mean Szasz?
as in Dr. Thomas Szasz?
also-- did you read the comments?
Is the original article there?
I read the first comment-- wow that guy needs an editor-- real bad.
He makes the original article sound pretty awful-- although I don't see how the internet plays into what he talked about.
I'll have to read more later-- but sounds fairly pernicious to me, at first glance. Not the internet part, but the part about there being "facts" about autonomy that are similar to facts about doing a high jump-- if you think the facts are calculable concrete details like "strength of one's legs" and "height of the jump"--
and also their analogy between the kind of automony that they're talking about and some type of moral or philsophical concept of autonomy. Iie according to the comment)
But I'll have to see if I have time to look at it.
Jost
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