Comments on: A ideology-free “economic Manhattan project”? http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381 Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:21:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Larry Sanger http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185779 Larry Sanger Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:18:45 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185779 Re whether Citizendium has an ideology, good question -- but I don't think so. See our <a href="http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Fundamentals" rel="nofollow">Statement of Fundamental Policies</a>. That's our draft "constitution." It represents an ideology only if, for example, the U.S. Constitution does. Re whether Citizendium has an ideology, good question — but I don’t think so. See our Statement of Fundamental Policies. That’s our draft “constitution.” It represents an ideology only if, for example, the U.S. Constitution does.

]]> By: Anthony http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185731 Anthony Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:50:45 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185731 Another question: does Citizendium have an ideology? If so, what is it? If not, what limitations does this impose? Another question: does Citizendium have an ideology? If so, what is it? If not, what limitations does this impose?

]]> By: Larry Sanger http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185732 Larry Sanger Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:49:54 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185732 Hmm--I guess "ideology" is commonly used to mean a world view that is held irrationally, but that isn't a core part of the meaning of the term. There's nothing wrong with ideology or even being ideological (in the right contexts, of course), insofar as it means something similar to "world view, particularly in regards to politics and religion." In saying that the social sciences, like economics, are inherently ideological, I mean that disagreements among theoreticians often come down to disagreements about deeper issues such as philosophy and politics. They are hence not resolvable by some generally-agreed-upon methodology. Hmm–I guess “ideology” is commonly used to mean a world view that is held irrationally, but that isn’t a core part of the meaning of the term. There’s nothing wrong with ideology or even being ideological (in the right contexts, of course), insofar as it means something similar to “world view, particularly in regards to politics and religion.” In saying that the social sciences, like economics, are inherently ideological, I mean that disagreements among theoreticians often come down to disagreements about deeper issues such as philosophy and politics. They are hence not resolvable by some generally-agreed-upon methodology.

]]> By: Anthony http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185730 Anthony Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:38:30 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=381#comment-185730 Larry, Isn't the term "ideology" commonly (ab)used to imply mystical belief which is not subject to logic and reason? Is this a disagreement of semantics, or are you using the same definition of "ideology" as those you are responding to? Larry,

Isn’t the term “ideology” commonly (ab)used to imply mystical belief which is not subject to logic and reason? Is this a disagreement of semantics, or are you using the same definition of “ideology” as those you are responding to?

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