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POPSThe Moral Instinct "the science of the moral sense can advance it, by allowing us to see through the illusions that evolution and culture have saddled us with and to focus on goals we can share and defend. As Anton Chekhov wrote, “Man will become better when you show him what he is like.”
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POPSThe Moral Instinct "The starting point for appreciating that there is a distinctive part of our psychology for morality is seeing how moral judgments differ from other kinds of opinions we have on how people ought to behave."
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POPSImmanuel Kant & Brittney Spears
The central question this poses is: did we do this to Brittney Spears? Isn't this somehow our fault? Spears poses an interesting challenge to this conventional interpretation of Kant. Consider this: it seem very clear now that Spears was merely a meat puppet, who's trials (both literal and figurative) and travails (mostly figurative) have destroyed her as a person. And to what ends? Nothing more than our temporary amusement, no doubt. The creation and destruction of Brittney Spears won't even provide long-term amusement, except maybe for later day insomniacs who watch VH1 20 years from now. But, did she not concent? Was not this devils bargain something she not only entered into fully appraised of the situation, but even sought it out? Didn't she get the life she wanted? (Albeit in a twisted and cruel way.) It seems Kant places too much confidence in people's rationality. We explained the ends to her and accepted it, but deep down didn't we all know something that s
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POPSWhy Atheists are So Smart Thus when Christopher Hitchens and other atheists routinely dismiss religious claims on the grounds that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence," they are making what philosophers like to call a category mistake. We learn from Kant that within the domain of experience, human reason is sovereign, but it is in no way unreasonable to believe things on faith that simply cannot be adjudicated by reason. When atheists summarily dismiss the immortality of the soul or the afterlife on the grounds that they have never found any empirical proofs for either, they are asking for experiential evidence in a domain which is entirely beyond the reach of experience. In this domain, Kant argues, the absence of evidence cannot be used as the evidence for absence. Notice that Kant's argument is entirely secular: It does not employ any religious vocabulary, nor does it rely on any kind of faith.
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POPSVOTE stop the bashing prepare to vote next year,,...
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POPSAny thoughts? I've seen this clearly. With my being over 50, there are those that refuse to listen to a word I say. when I was growing up, I always tended to listen to those older people around me more intently. For much can be learned from those whom have experienced more of life. www.vineofchrist.org
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POPSRep. Obey has a hard job Obey evidently doesn't follow my favorite philosopher Immanuel Kant, but (perhaps because of the positive slant he is given in this article) I find a lot to like about him.
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POPSSatiriker Kant Nachdem ich in Kants Vorkritischen Schriften auf diese Stelle gestoßen bin, halte ich ihn für einen Altmeister der Satire. (Siehe auch: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/kant/aa02/257.html)
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POPSJoshua D Greene - moral decision-making On a functional, rational, emotional basis of morality. My research program aims at a synthesis of these two perspectives There's a list of publications at the source (bottom of the page)
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