Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:17:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Re:  Re:  Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again




On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Michael Rooney wrote:

> But what does that amount to?  Suppose offering unleesh's
> heart to the gods of strife is just my way of treating him
> decently?

Who could possibly think that?  And if anyone was so far out there as to
think that, how could a moral theory possibly convince them that they were
wrong?

> This Habermasian line is a colossal question-
> begger: in order to be moral, you must be moral.  

Indeed.  But such is life after the death of God.

Matthew

 ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
  "Yes - Kilgore Trout is back again.  He could not make it on the outside.
  That is no disgrace.  A lot of good people can't make it on the outside."
 -----------------------------(Kurt Vonnegut)-------------------------------