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To: Dayuhan who wrote (40613)6/16/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: E  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Fewer devices for rationalization? I don't think so. I think the human capacity for rationalization is infinite.

I wish I had a scanner. There are some great sections on this very subject in that book I keep harping on, The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright. Fun book to read. My sister in law's book group read it and it occasioned the best talks they'd ever had.

I wish everybody would read that book. I would reread it.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (40613)6/16/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 108807
 
If you believe, as I do, that our
moral codes are based on human experience of what behaviour is socially expedient,

Social and legal codes arise this way. I suggest that morality is something different, and requires an external authority.


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