social norms are moral

kelley d-m-c at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jun 19 10:24:19 PDT 1999


one online course hardly constitutes serious examination of the sort you'd devote to hegel, chuck. if you think i flipped out because you'd rather impose what you think is your correct, one and true version of norms, morality, etc, then be my guest. mom says, a-okay and pretty damn typical of you to zero in on that as if it were completely unwarranted. you seem to forget that you've demonstrated a great deal of hostility to the tradition of scholarship that emerged in an effort to establish, at one time, itself as a "science of morality" insofar as it found Kant, Bentham, Mills et al wholly inadequate to undertanding morality and ethics. a group of scholars that took very seriously the attmempt to understand why the tradition of moral philosophy had failed so miserably, why it had reflected the ideologies of the ruling class, etc. it's for that reason that i am impatient with you and your refusal to actually engage me and what i'm speaking about. in other words, if you want to engage in critique then i think you should do what you've proved quite capable of doing elsewhere: read and learn and then engage in an internal critique. you don't want or have time to do this, fine. what can i say except that i'll leave you alone and won't bother any more.



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