From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 06 2004 - 13:43:27 GMT
Hi all
I think this points out that bi-polar dualisms create our world.
At one end you have De Sade nihilism that says you can do anything you
like, at the other you have a god of absolute law that justifies killing heathens.
All good things taken too far go bad. Look at Capitalism.
Balance is called for, sure we are free, we could be very bad but we don't
really want to be that bad, we have to live with some grasp of what we think is true
but we don't have to kill you if you disagree with us. What is good? Can we promote it?
What have been it sources in the past? These are some of the question
the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been asking.
DM
----- Original Message -----
From: Erin
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: MD terror & religion
amazon.com: Dostoevsky's famous phrase "without God, everything is permitted" (from The Brothers Karamazov) is often used by theists as a warning about the dangers of living without a transcendent moral certitude. In your view, is it safe to say that "it's with God that everything is permitted" (murder, genocide, etc.)?
Harris: Yes, but I would broaden the scope of the claim: With false certainty, anything is possible. This covers the Hitlers and the Stalins of the world as well.
Is there anything that MoQers would agree that constitute true certainty?
Erin
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