Saying Guantanamo is against natural justice is not an appeal to a transcendent ideal. Driving on the right or on the left is wrong depending on what country you're in, but driving dangerously is (in the nature of things) always wrong. Why call that transcendental?
Allen Wood's distinction of moral and nonmoral "goods" is quasi-Kantian (and also influenced by utilitarianism), not Marxist. You can't get more "noble" than Aristotle's magnanimous man -- or more self-respecting than Socrates.
James
On 23/07/2007 17:14:10, Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari at berkeley.edu) wrote:
> Hi Doug
> A slave enjoys the right to life, the right to make
> one's living only
> on condition that he perform labor gratis for another. But wouldn't
>
> it reflect a slave morality to rebel against this condition on the
> basis of appeals to transcendent ideals like natural or
> God's
> justice. In robust health, one opposes the relation out of respect
> for one's
> own flourishing, happiness and well being, out of
> affirmation of one's own nobility; these are as Allen Wood argues non
> moral goods. Marx and Nietzsche indeed.
> Yours, Rakesh
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