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

To: Neocon who wrote (62170)	10/10/2002 1:24:08 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Really Neocon, is there anything in this statement by Kant that can be defended? Legislation cannot remove the disgrace of an illegitimate birth. . . . A child that comes into the world apart from marriage is born outside the law . . . and therefore outside the protection of the law. It has, as it were, stolen into the commonwealth (like contraband merchandise), so that the commonwealth can ignore its existence (since it was not right that it should have come to exist this way), and can therefore also ignore its annihilation. Aristotle made no such outlandish statements.

To: Neocon who wrote (62170)	10/10/2002 3:45:02 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Okay, the answers: The prime mover is the most perfectly actualized being, with no extension or alteration, in some sense outside of the cosmos, because without matter. The sphere of the fixed stars "yearns" for perfect actuality, and therefore is attracted to the prime mover, but cannot attain it, therefore endlessly revolving. The subsequent spheres are similarly moved to strive for the next level, and motion is communicated downward. Prudence is an intellectual virtue with moral implications. It is the ability to discern the particularities of a case in order to best apply moral principals to it. Catharsis is the theory that tragedy is good because it purges the polis of negative emotions, primarily fear and pity. The four causes are material, formal, efficient, and final. The material cause is that stuff that is used for creating an entity, for example, wood for a ship. The formal cause is the plan, for example, blueprints. The efficient cause is the action that of putting it together, for example, sawing and hammering. The final cause is the purpose for all of the commotion, which may be expressed in terms of use or perfection of form, in different instances.