(urth) Political philosophies

Lane Haygood lhaygood at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 09:18:36 PDT 2010


> Also on the mountain is the suggestion that the ideal society is one in which all people will
> treat each other justly if they know they are descended from the same two ancestors. On first
> readings, this seemed like oddly undisguised racism and xenophobia.

I got the opposite impression, that racism and xenophobia are
senseless, given the assumption that we are all children of Adam and
Eve, and therefore that we owe filial respect and duty to all
regardless of clan, nation or ethnicity.



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