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To: epicure who wrote (4411)	2/2/2001 2:35:12 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

What is due to you need not depend on reason, morality, truth, or anything else. But it must. What is due to me is a moral question, that has been addressed by the philosophy of ethics for the past 2500 years. You are stating that what is due to me need not depend on reason--can be determined without reason. I wonder why you would think that? I would wonder why anyone would want to consider an ethical proposition by gainsaying reason at the very start? Is reason such an enemy of humankind? The very words "due to" carry a full implication of action and consequence--conditional upon a behaviour, or upon an inherent right. It also carries the implication of *"deserving of". These are ethical/moral considerations, and are the province of the philosophy of ethics. I hesitate to try to advance this discussion in such an arena, if the tool of reason is not to be our common language. I don't dispute that there may be some sense of something being due to* me NOT depending upon reason; But it seems artificial, and it really washes out the road..