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John S. Wilkins  
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 More options Oct 4 2012, 2:09 pm
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From: j...@wilkins.id.au (John S. Wilkins)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:09:24 +1000
Local: Thurs, Oct 4 2012 2:09 pm
Subject: Re: [I] monarchy and the uk constitution
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Larry Moore <sshirleyallan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-10-03, John S. Wilkins <j...@wilkins.id.au> wrote:

> >> >> Just as an adjunct how, precisely, do we wish to define "civilized"?  In
> >> >> such a way as everyone agrees with the definition rather than the usual
> >> >> way which is "Doing things the way I think they should be done"

> >> >There is no other definition. To be civilised is to do and act the way
> >> >John Wilkins think things should be done.

> >> Does it matter which John Wilkins?

> > Certainly. Not that seventeenth century poseur...

> OK ... accepting you as a relevant authority, what are the necessary
> and sufficient conditions?

I told you. That things are done the way I think they should be. I
didn't say I knew what those ways were overtly, or even consistently.
--
John S. Wilkins, Associate, Philosophy, University of Sydney
http://evolvingthoughts.net
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

 
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