Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:21:53 -0400
Subject: Re: HAB: Kant avec Sade


  Desire is one of many maxims that fit the
>categorical imperative.  In fact, Kant notes that rationality *is*
>desire - the desire to be free and moral.

I, for one, would like some contextual evidence for this, please.



>
>        This is why I think Kant is best understood in
>a radically formalist manner.  Instead of a choice between
>good and evil, I submit that a choice is actually between two
>radical evils.  In this case - responsibility is always left intact.
> If the result is always evil, then it remains within the realm of
>the ethical, and human beings remain responsible for it.

But Kant says we are not responsible for the results, right?  If we were,
then we could lie to the Gestapo.  But we can't.



Jeffery L. Nicholas
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506
jlnich1-AT-pop.uky.edu




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