Philp, you have to understand that what Carrol is doing, much like the Randians, is trying to convert his own ethical beliefs into an impersonal, objective natural process. This is what people who have a code of behavior, but feel embarassed by it for philosophical or whatever other reasons, do.
--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Philp Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That seems like linguistic sophistry to me. Social/ethical;
> practice/principle, these are plays on words. Ethics is
> always related to
> the rest of society, its always dialectically grounded in
> the social link,
> even when it appears otherwise. As for practice and
> principle it seems the
> same thing, principles never meant anything unless they
> were practiced...
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