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To: jhild who wrote (9974)	4/18/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Alas, you err in arguing that Nazism cannot be a sister to reason. Reason has no particular moral content. Reason operates upon ethical definitions which are necessarily chosen a priori. A nazi, or a cannibal for that matter, can operate perfectly logically and reasonably within their own ethical systems. The problem is with their first principles, not with their failure to follow reason. There is a perennial appeal to the idea that an ethical system based upon reason must exist, but in fact none does. If you were to try to develop ethical definitions from reason itself, it would turn out that you had inadvertently smuggled a priori definitions into your system without realizing it. It's an epistemological problem, you are really crossing categories when you try to derive ethics from reason.