Sir Bernard Williams, 73, philosopher (Ethics expert)

Mercury News ^ | 6/14/03 | Christopher Lehmann-Haupt- NYTimes

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Sir Bernard Williams, the lightning-witted Oxford professor who is credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy and was considered by some to be the greatest British philosopher of his era, died Tuesday in Oxford. He was 73 and lived at All Souls College, Oxford.

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Was Bill Clinton one of his Ethics students at Oxford 8-?

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Ping.

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Read this from yesterday's Times. This guy sounds like he was a total jerk. Sounds like his first marriage may have been open and since the door was he left for wife number two. After that he got busy writing public policy papers so porn could be more easily disemminated. After that, Berkely and an embrace of the genius in the new idea that there is no truth. (Those in the know, Bernard, realize the Enemy spewed that garbage in the garden eons ago, get with it!) V's wife.

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he held that the simple goal of truth was worth pursuing.

After that, Berkely and an embrace of the genius in the new idea that there is no truth.

It seems that the quote from the article above, and your interpretation of it, after, are in conflict.

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More here. His life and political opinions look to be standard for someone who became a philosophy professor in the 50s, after growing up during depression and world war. The left was very strong then, more a global climate of opinion that people adapted to, rather than a matter of conscious choice, moral conversion, or strenuous thinking. In the liberal heyday of the early 60s you were probably as likely to meet a cannibal as a conservative at a meeting of ambitious young professors in the arts or social sciences. So complaining about it is like cursing the weather. In his last years, Williams was troubled by the relativism and nihilism of contemporary philosophers, who took their interpretation of liberalism too far. His taking to the Internet, though, was an interesting development, though he does stick to a short-answer format. Maybe more philosophers will go online in the future.

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SPOTREP

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"Maybe more philosophers will go online in the future."

Oh, yeah? How much does it pay? I could use the extra money. ;-)

Or would that be unethical 8-?