Comments on: How Do Ideas Have Consequences? http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2010/09/30/how-do-ideas-have-consequences/ A First Things Blog Mon, 20 May 2013 19:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ralph Hancock http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2010/09/30/how-do-ideas-have-consequences/comment-page-1/#comment-12143 Ralph Hancock Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:37:12 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=2485#comment-12143 John,
Yes, I’ll get to Hunter. But you seem to have thought alot about this question and to have studied Hunter’s view. So why not move things forward by explaining how my little take is burdened with “idealism and individualism” and just what is Hunter’s alternative understanding of the consequence of ideas in relation to “the dynamics of social change”?

]]> By: John Seel http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2010/09/30/how-do-ideas-have-consequences/comment-page-1/#comment-12138 John Seel Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:44:33 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=2485#comment-12138 Ralph:

Your statement does need to engage Hunter as it has all of the idealism and individualism that he critiques. Historical analysis does not evidence the dynamics of social change that you are assuming and as a consequence your project is doomed to failure. Ideas do have consequences, but only under certain conditions.

John Seel (djsjr@earthlink.net)

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