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- From: ag@sics.se (Anders G|ransson)
- Subject: Re: Grounding morals
- In-Reply-To: jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:07:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <AG.93Jan26133304@anhur.sics.se>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:33:04 GMT
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- In article <C1G6Ct.HJ8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jimmy -Jimbo- Wales) writes:
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- (text, from Peter C. and 'Jimbo' omitted)
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- Not directly, not immediately, not individually, of course. But
- intellectual arguments play a strong role in shaping culture, law,
- etc. If there is a failure among intellectuals (philosophers) in
- defending (for example) the fundamental value of life, then a direct
- result may be: Nazi gas chambers. We've seen it happen.
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- I don't know if it is in any way related to this issue but I
- once read a serie of interesting comments on this matter by
- Heisenberg (who lived in Germany during the second world war).
- He suggested that intellectual arguments was part of the problem
- and that morality must be based in something beyond rational
- arguments. One metaphor he used was that we had built a boat in
- a strong structure of steel, so strong that the compass only
- responded to the steel surrounding it.
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- Now, I hope I haven't 'put my foot in my mouth' or whatever way
- the English proverb has it.
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- best regards Anders
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- If you see Saint Annie, please tell her - Thanks a lot.
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