> If the choice were really between Kantian moral philosophy and nothing,
> I'd probably choose nothing too.
I'm not sure who's chosen "nothing". The conversation seems a little confused, largely (I suspect) because those of us who are vigorous about rejecting the Kantian approach have thereby somehow given the impression that we're heartless nihilists.
> But that's got nothing to do with the
> debate on this list.
What exactly would you say that debate is? This is not a rhetorical question: I'm not really sure what the "pro" side is claiming, though I think I understand us cons. Doug, for example, has been a vigorous advocate of morality but I just read a post from him that articulated a rather congenial (to me) natural-history account of morality: it's the thing that we humans feel in a certain corner of our viscera.
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