Thanks, Helmut, that's a very apt observation. I had posted this quote earlier on Facebook in a couple of discussions of recent events on the U.S. scene but then there was a line in the passage Gary F. quoted from Peirce that called it back to mind.
[PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.5 https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/arc/peirce-l/2017-12/msg00149.html CSP: | That truth and justice are great powers in the world | is no figure of speech, but a plain fact to which | theories must accommodate themselves. I read Theodore Parker's moral, notably paraphrased in recent times by Martin Luther King, Jr., more as natural analogy than naturalistic fallacy, but it's true, many fallacies are rooted in analogies, icons, metaphors, and poetic images that we naturally push too far past their breaking points. It is a tricky business, though, as all matters heuristical, since we often learn much from straining analogies beyond their natural limits and experimenting with ways to repair them. Still, all eventually reach a natural limit and many -isms that lead us astray in the end, alchemism, biologism, conceptualism, dyadicism, and too reductive styles of mechanism, physicalism, and psychologism, stem from figures taken too literally. For my part, I confess to being rather fickle as far as faith in a moral universe goes, but on a good day I try to keep a good thought as long as I can. Regards, Jon On 12/13/2017 5:53 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
Jon, List, I think, this post is about the naturalistic fallacy, is it? I want to recommend a writing by Lawrence Kohlberg, whose book "The philosophy of moral development" I have read, and the writing that surely suits to this topic, but which I have not yet read, is called "From is to ought". Best, Helmut 13. Dezember 2017 um 22:16 Uhr "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]> wrote: o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker ☞ https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o
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