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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (25920)	9/4/2001 5:07:59 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, and if you assume that the moral order is applicable to all human beings in principle (which is what "universalized" means here), then you are assuming there is a human nature, at least for current purposes, in which to ground morality. Think Aristotle, not Plato. You are quibbling over words. Since the very idea of morality includes that it is not instinctive, but cultural, and therefore might or might not be adhered to, I could not have meant "inherent" as if it were predestined. All that I could have meant was that it was discoverable upon reflection upon human nature and society, and that is the sole purport of the analogy with the sciences.......