Comments on: Voodoo Histories [Part 1] http://all-embracing.episto.org/2009/07/05/voodoo-histories-part-1/ The Philosophy and Epistemology On, About and Around Conspiracy Theories Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:03:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Paul Litterick http://all-embracing.episto.org/2009/07/05/voodoo-histories-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13630 Paul Litterick Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:29:33 +0000 http://all-embracing.episto.org/?p=1842#comment-13630 I've seen this sort of thing before: Furedi has formed a definition of what constitutes a conspiracy theory and berated Aaronovitch for having a different notion about the subject on which he is writing. Is is something like those people who say that abstract painting is not Art, rather than claiming it to be bad Art or simply Art they do not like. And perhaps I was out of the room when the ideology of evil was devised. Because I hear people use the word 'evil' with very different meanings to his. I think it always implies a supernatural agency, as his own account of witchcraft and other goings on in the middle ages attests. He asserts that the notion of evil has been secularised. I would suggest that no such thing is possible. I’ve seen this sort of thing before: Furedi has formed a definition of what constitutes a conspiracy theory and berated Aaronovitch for having a different notion about the subject on which he is writing. Is is something like those people who say that abstract painting is not Art, rather than claiming it to be bad Art or simply Art they do not like.

And perhaps I was out of the room when the ideology of evil was devised. Because I hear people use the word ‘evil’ with very different meanings to his. I think it always implies a supernatural agency, as his own account of witchcraft and other goings on in the middle ages attests. He asserts that the notion of evil has been secularised. I would suggest that no such thing is possible.

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