Friday, February 26, 2010

Conscience and authority

Reading Linda Hogan, two things have become obvious. The first is that she has an axe to grind and that doing so ultimately ruins what might have been an interesting book. The second thing is that I want to go at conscience much more slowly than she does.

In the opening pages of Chapter 1, Hogan says a whole lot about what conscience is and what isn't and says this without a hint of doubt. I'm not so sure we can or should assume anywhere near so much as she does.

Anyway, revised plans. Rather than going through chapter by chapter, I'm going to pull out intriguing claims she makes and think about them. Put them down here and walk around them for a while (figuratively speaking) and see what I can make of them.

Next post will have today's quote.

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