Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:36:36 EST
Subject: Re: [HAB:] What makes a human right universal?


In a message dated 11/2/2003 10:07:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mwtippett-AT-sympatico.ca writes:
What is an event?  Prior to an event are systems of intentionality.  After an 
event are systems of judgment.  During an event is a doer; afterward adeed.  
If by natural is meant inevitable, I cannot agree with this thread.  
To understand morality we must first possess a rudimentary understanding of 
causality (Kant).  
There are events before there is intent; there are many events, sequences of 
instants, without any intentionality.  Just as there are no deeds without 
doers, doing and deeds must be simultaneous, however, the doer may not be aware of 
this.  Doing is a response to something which has a result.  Intent is the 
application of previous experience of the results of doing to an action.  Events 
are merely sequences, like birds in flight from branch to branch; a causal 
relation exists when a person has organized their perceptions of events to 
anticipate a result, and it predictably occurs.

Fred


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