Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:00:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> To: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020910135549.W35938-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20020910152817.7ceb1917.yid@softhome.net>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joshua Lee wrote: > > ROFL. You think Kantian ethics are objective? BTW, please explain > > how you get ethics from "natural law". That's a joke, right? > > Kantian ethics are objective, I don't happen to like a few of the > conclusions it reaches, but they are objective, without placing a diety > on a pedestal of objectivity. Kant's whole philosophy was infected with subjectivism. > Funny, you being a Protestant, I thought > you would like Kant. What, you think Kant was a Christian? > What do you not like about his philosophy, which is closer to your > beliefs than mine anyway? What makes you think that? I like the fact that he started asking the right kinds of questions, given his work on transcendental arguments, but the problem with Kant is that he still started with man as his starting point, which is the source of the subjectivism in his philosophy. Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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