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To: epicure who wrote (229850)	5/5/2007 1:44:48 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The humanistic philosophy isn't so bad... It is an excellent example of what I call a bad philosophy. On the face, it appears excellent. Who could argue with this: Humanism entails a commitment to the search for truth and morality through human means in support of human interests Well, anyone with any appreciation of basic biology should see a glaring problem. To make it more obvious, 100 years ago the following would have been just as acceptable: Whitism entails a commitment to the search for truth and morality through White means in support of White interests The divergence of Whites from the rest of human is in the 10K's years range. The divergence of humans from other primates in the few millions. Would you not think that any modern philosophy would want to look at morality and ethics of living things rather that define morality strictly in terms of one segment? Another way to understand it is if a medical school teaching immunology claimed as their mission: This institution of Immunology is dedicated to the search for truth and understand of Immunology by studying only human immune systems, in support of human well being. When it comes to such basic biology, most slightly awake individuals realise that humans & animals in fact shed a lot of light on each other. This has not always been the case. We have had to shed much philosophical nonsense along the way to get to this point wrt to not only immunology, but most aspects of biology linking humans and animals. But how much progress have we made when it comes to morality and ethics between humans & animals? That is were you can start to appreciate just what I mean by bad philosophy standing in the way of progress. You happen to have cited just such an example.