[lbo-talk] How radical was Derrida? (was 'does anyone read poststructuralism anymore?')

[Eubulides]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyway, Ted's whole argument is the classic Moral Argument for the Existence of God*, which is invalid, and which has been known for hundreds of years to be invalid, unless you adopt an idealist/realist metaphysics, the adoption of which would have to be argued for first before making the moral argument and which I doubt either Marx, Husserl, or St. Whitehead would accept.
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> *I.e. universal moral judgments require an objective moral criterion, and this we all call god.

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I'm not sure Ted's claim falls into the Kantian camp; it may be the
older neoplatonic argument for axiarchism, of which the Euthyphro
problem is the germ. John Leslie's "Infinite Minds" brings the tools
of analytic philosophy to bear on the issues; a review which also
points to another review may be found at:

http://prosblogion.ektopos.com/archives/2006/06/can-theism-answ.html

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