On Dec 12, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Where the fuck do those "values" come from. If you are going to argue
> values you have to establish their foundation, and that leads either
> to
> religion or to merely personal grunts of approval and disapproval.
Carrol refuses to allow even the possibility of rational *moral* judgments. Yet he feels no hesitation whatsoever about proclaiming his own *aesthetic* judgments. So when he fulsomely praises a Milton or a Pound, is he enunciating a religious faith or a merely personal grunt of approval?
Shane Mage
Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there
are appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only offering acceptable is silence.