Ethical foundations of the left

Kenneth MacKendrick kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Sun Jul 22 01:10:58 PDT 2001


At 03:37 AM 7/22/01 +0000, you wrote:


>That's why Posner's right that philosophical arguments don't trump strong
>intuitions. --jks

I have a hunch that this is incorrect.

But seriously... philosophical argument don't trump strong intuitions, ie. everyday life wins, or philosophical arguments ought not to trump strong intutions? (ie. libidinally cathected love objects win).

In either case, we're on rather unfortunate grounds here.

intuition is (somebody elses) argument in disguise, ken



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