On 1/3/2013 7:10 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi meekerdb
Although a brilliant logician, Russell was far left (no doubt a
communist and so anti-christian).
He was anti-communist too.
His diatribe against Christianity
is a prime example.
It's certainly a prime example of his brilliance and logic.
It's totally misinformed and mistaken.
Ethics is, at bottom, loving your neighbor as your self.
And your evidence for this is...?
Brent
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He
is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them.
He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts
his throat if his theology isn't straight.
--- Mark Twain
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1/3/2013
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On 1/2/2013 2:24 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
That really has nothing to do with Evil though, except in sloppy reasoning.
True
Evil is about intentionally initiating social harm. Getting smallpox is not
evil,
it is just unfortunate. Giving someone blankets known to be infected with
smallp
On the contrary it is sloppy ethics to confine 'evil' to intentional social harm.
First, it implies that socially bad is bad simpliciter, but values are ultimately
personal values. Second, it implies that as soon as we find a physical
cause (he
was drunk, he had YY chromosmes, his father beat him) for a behavior it's
not longer
evil. But all behavior has a physical cause. So I'm ok with just dropping
the term
'evil' and just referring to good/bad for individuals and good/bad for
society as
derivative. But I think it's a hangover from theodicy to refer to human
actions as
evil but not natural events - it's part of the idea that humans are apart
from nature.
Brent
Ethics is, at bottom, the art of recommending to others the
self-sacrifice necessary to cooperate with ourselves.
--- Bertrand Russell
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