tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post115515070364044607..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Moral Reasoning -- BackwardsDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1155303051750909832006-08-11T09:30:00.000-04:002006-08-11T09:30:00.000-04:00I love Plato too, but it's just an amusement thoug...I love Plato too, but it's just an amusement though isn't it? He has some nice lessons on logic, but was also able to prove some ludicrous things, purely by the power of his intellect and sheer audacity. I'm not sure he's a good candidate for philosophical veracity. <BR/><BR/>But I guess the epsitles of St Paul are largely philosophical, as indeed are the writings of other great early Christians. Likewise, the wise teachings of the Confucists and Buddhists. So evidently some philosophy can illuminate what is deeply true.<BR/><BR/>But it's such a small proportion! And in every case is founded on something deeper than the philosophy itself.<BR/><BR/>As for all muck that I dabbled in as a youth (not that my reading was all that deep or broad; Neitzsche, Marx, that existential rubbish, plus bits and pieces of this and that from here and there), it's beautiful and seductive, but monstrous -- and lies, all lies! <BR/><BR/>Corrupters of the young, indeed. Bring out the hemlock!kipwatsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15570009917672909788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1155257157686394842006-08-10T20:45:00.000-04:002006-08-10T20:45:00.000-04:00philosophy is at best idle word-play and in most c...<I>philosophy is at best idle word-play and in most cases a wicked fraud that can prove anything.</I><BR/><BR/>I think there's an aweful lot of baby flying out the window with that bathwater, Kip. <BR/><BR/>Philosophy provides the only window on truth and wisdom to which we have access as natural creatures -- that is, without the benefit of revelation. I'd be very hesitant to put Plato and Aristotle (or even Lucretius and Cicero) in the same camp as Singer. It's not Singer's tools that are at fault, but what he's doing with them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1155210002383670152006-08-10T07:40:00.000-04:002006-08-10T07:40:00.000-04:00It gets difficult, since we are a fallen race livi...It gets difficult, since we are a fallen race living in an imperfect world. There are times when both inaction and every possible action are morally wrong (eg. the end stages of WWII).<BR/><BR/>As for Peter Singer. He is living proof that all philosophy is at best idle word-play and in most cases a wicked fraud that can prove anything.kipwatsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15570009917672909788noreply@blogger.com