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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Ethics -- a quest
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.152255.9383@news.eng.convex.com>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:22:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.054647.26559@StarConn.com> agray@StarConn.com (Andrew J. Gray) writes:
- ...
- >Can anyone provide pointers to a discussion of ethics that is NOT based
- >on Judeo-Christian mythology?
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- Aristotle (NICOMACHEAN ETHICS). Plato (REPUBLIC). John Stuart Mill.
- Immanuel Kant. John Rawls. ...
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- By the way, is an action good because God says it is, or does God say it's
- good because it _is_ good?
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