mad love for the scepticshunter_sweeneyJanuary 29 2005, 05:34:49 UTC
...even though hume gets a bit funny when he starts talking about his "shared moral sense" and shit like that. I wish he woulda thought that one out a bit more, but we love him 'cause his philosophical heart is in the right place, so to speak. I apprciate his intuitive passion, and his connection to reality ( unlike his contemporaries
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I've always wanted to give James a look, but never gotten the chance. I will take your recommendation and give him a look.
As for the categorical imperative, I'm not sure exactly what disagrees with you about it. Kant suggests that ethics should be based on how it is rationally acceptable for everyone to act. I agree with him when he says that morality can't on the grounds of a condition or purpose. The action can't be encumbered by the notion that "if I do this, that will happen". It seems like it should be done because it's what supposed to be done. True, it might make some of these "moral" actions seem impersonal, and it might detract from those actions that create good results that are driven by the hypothetical imperative, but it follows for me that only actions not driven by personal gain could be truly moral.
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I hope both of you die in each others retarded arms.
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I've always wanted to give James a look, but never gotten the chance. I will take your recommendation and give him a look.
As for the categorical imperative, I'm not sure exactly what disagrees with you about it. Kant suggests that ethics should be based on how it is rationally acceptable for everyone to act. I agree with him when he says that morality can't on the grounds of a condition or purpose. The action can't be encumbered by the notion that "if I do this, that will happen". It seems like it should be done because it's what supposed to be done. True, it might make some of these "moral" actions seem impersonal, and it might detract from those actions that create good results that are driven by the hypothetical imperative, but it follows for me that only actions not driven by personal gain could be truly moral.
Manny the destroyer?
And Curt, maybe we WILL.
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