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To: gao seng who wrote (438)	4/26/2001 1:54:39 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

Actually, the characterization of Kant is inaccurate. Kant held that we obey the moral law because, as rational beings, we have reverence for the law, without regard to consequences. However, our concern for justice creates a problem, since the moral law is not vindicated in the life (the good suffer and the wicked prosper). Therefore, we have motivation for a rational belief in God and the afterlife, so that justice may be done in the long run. The argument about happiness is subordinate. There are quibbles I have with the material on Plato, but the most important is that in The Meno, he argues that virtue cannot be taught! Rather, we know what is right through "recollection", since there is some sense in which the Forms are impressed upon our souls to begin with. What appears to be education is really prodding to recollect what we already know, when it comes to fundamentals. It is true that he thought we did evil out of ignorance, and yet he himself invokes images of Divine retribution on a couple of occasions in the dialogues, suggesting that people are accountable for indifference to finding out their duty........