Differing Worldviews in Higher Education Two Scholars Argue Cooperat
Two noted professors on opposite sides of the cultural wars come together and engage in "cooperative argumentation." One, a "Jewish, atheist libertarian" and the other a "mixed blood American Indian" bring to the table two radically different worldviews t
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Differing Worldviews in Higher Education Two Scholars Argue Cooperatively About Justice Education
Four Arrows Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, USA
Walter Block Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
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DEDICATION
Four Arrows thanks Chief Seattle for warning us that we would eventually learn that we cannot eat money. Walter Block thanks Adam Smith for his invisible hand, Friedrich Hayek for his spontaneous order and Murray Rothbard for blazing the path to Austro-libertarian anarcho capitalism. Both authors of this book would like to thank Walter Block’s Loyola University research assistants Maria Missura, Andrew Naquin and especially Michael O’Brien for help with references, proper headers, footers and pagination and other such copy editing matters.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction: An Intellectual Adventure.............................................................. 1 2. Academic Freedom.............................................................................................. 9 3. Ecological Justice .............................................................................................. 37 4. Wealth Distribution ......................................................................................... 113 5. A Case Study: Protesting Arizona’s Anti-hispanic Legislation....................... 173 6. Conclusion: Disagreement, Non-violence and Friendship .............................. 213 References............................................................................................................ 217 About the Authors ................................................................................................ 235
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION An Intellectual Adventure
WHAT ARE THE GOALS FOR THIS BOOK?
We two authors, one an American Indian with an Indigenous worldview and a liberal inclination (Four Arrows), the other a Jewish atheist with a Western worldview and a libertarian orientation (Walter E. Block), employ “cooperative argumentation” to accomplish what an amazon.com reviewer said about a book on this topic (Makau and Marty, 2001): “Cooperative Argumentation gets us past the fighting in debate, and moves us toward the real power that can be found in understandin
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