intentional
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Jul 16 17:27:55 UTC 2007
At 1:17 PM -0400 7/16/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>It's interesting how Quakers and Unitarians--so opposite theologically
Opposite theologically? How so? From which theory of antonymy does
this follow? If it's just that Quakers are necessarily theists while
Unitarians aren't, that doesn't yield oppositeness. Unless, of
course, Nixon is taken to be the prototypic Quaker...
--LH, intentional Unitarian
>--can still turn out to be the same "sort of people": that is,
>"ethically-focussed, politically progressive, humanist" (in one
>sense of "humanist," at least).
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:05:25 -0400
>>From: sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
>>Subject: Re: intentional
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>>You are quite right about the intentional community. I should have
>>enlarged on that. Instead, I got to thinking about "intentional"
>>as it functions in the larger community of the ethically-focussed,
>>politically progressive, humanist, unitarian, quakerish sort of
>>people among whom a
>lot of my life has been spent.
>
>>AM
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