3/21/2005

Lincoln Corridors and dialecticians

There's a new heritage-trail type project out there somewhere called the Lincoln Corridor. If you search for it, you get hits from Lincoln [transportation] Corridors in Nebraska and California. Mention is made of it here.

The same (linked) article contains another puzzle: "the Dialectic Society, will [place a Lincoln statue] on the lawn of the Livingston County Courthouse." "The Dialectic Society"? Those would be Hegelians and/or Kantians, no?

Lincoln was anti-Kantian. Dialecticians are better off erecting a statue to Calhoun.

That's what I take from Harry Jaffa, and I believe him.