A Drooling Response to Rob

[gcf at panix.com]

Ken Hanly:
> On what grounds does Habermas claim that science cannot be an arbiter of moral
> disputes? Is this just a logical consequence of its being in a separate "sphere"?
> I doubt that science can settle all moral disputes but it certainly could settle
> some....

At some point you reach intuitive, non-instrumental
evaluations.  There, science can't tell you what to value
unless you arbitrarily decide to evaluate it into a
moral arbiter.

Gordon