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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4270)2/1/2001 1:48:41 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
from the new republic, Ladies, Truth, and Logic by Simon Blackburn:
'"The presence of an ethical symbol in a proposition adds nothing to it's factual content. Thus if I say to someone, "you acted wrongly in stealing that money," I am not saying anything more than if I had simply said, "You stole that money." In adding that this action is wrong I am not making any further statement about it. I am simply evincing my moral disapproval of it. It is as if I had said "you stole that money," in a peculiar tone of horror..."

...Ayer's position (the article is about a.J. Ayer) is not so very terrible: finding that ethics is a matter of which attitudes to hold does not make it either simple or unimportant. A person who still believes this about ethics can still act ethically or unethically.'
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