Ethical foundations of the left

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Jul 24 23:43:50 PDT 2001



>
> I think the word intuition here is being overextended. I think it would be
> more appropriate to talk about a belief in God rather than just an
> intuition about God (at least in the case of someone jumpting out of an
> airplane at 10,000 feet with no parachute). A belief, in good pragmatic
> fashion, is a rule of behaviour.

I think your distinction is valid, yet Ken Hanly's point stands because the belief in question is presumably based on intution and not reasoned argument.

-- Luke



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