Off List Re: Marxism At Yale

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Tue Nov 20 08:07:15 PST 2001


At 07:48 AM 11/20/01 -0800, Miles Jackson wrote:


>You know, no offense to any ethicists around here, but most
>convoluted ethical philosophical perspectives always seem to
>boil down to a cliche like this ...
>
>Miles

i remember reading about lex talionis which seems oh-so-uncivlied. and yet, lex talionis was quite an advance (some thought it a cliche (and, indeed, uncivilized, eventually) over the retributive justice that was dominant at the time.

kelley



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