[Buddha-l] Aung San Suu Kyi and the latest Burmese prosecutions

[Richard Hayes]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Ben Carral <info at bcarral.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, May 17, 2009, 12:03 AM, Richard wrote:
>
>    Maybe  it  would be useful to consider Erich Fromm's
> distinction  between rational and irrational authority.
> According  to  Fromm,  and  I  agree with him, rational
> authority   is  something  quite  important  for  human
> beings.  There  is nothing wrong with authority when it
> is wisely applied in order to benefit others.
>

That sounds sweet enough. The practical problem is, I have never met an
authority who claimed to be irrational.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes