190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Constitution of Knowledge Can Advance Human Dwelling
A great example of this is raceism. Racism is as deeply imbedded in human thinking, as ancient as anything you can imagine. It goes away when people making these races pronouncements are subjected to a system of critical scrutiny. Same with homosexuality, h same with women being unequal. So what i'm maintaining here is that we can use the constitution of knowledge for almost any kind of question where we agree to subject ourselves to the disciplines of checking and of impersonal rules and institutions.
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