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- From: 5g72wheelerj@vms.csd.mu.edu (John C. Wheeler)
- Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
- Subject: RE: GOD
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:24:12 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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- Well, my first inclination is to wonder how you're going to navigate
- morality in a deterministic conception of the universe (reaction, not
- action, etc.) Perhaps I'm not interpreting you correctly, but at
- first you seem to be asserting a rather Skinnerian position, and then
- shifting. At any rate, if everything is purely material, andM{ humans
- only react, there can be no such thing as a "moral choice," since
- actions are all determined; morality only exists in any meaningful
- way when agents are able to choose freely between alternatives . . .
- This is just my first impression, and correct me if I've read you
- wrong thus far.
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- John WHeeler, Milwaukee, Wisconsinn
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