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There are a couple of threads in alt.callahans that made me want to set some ideas down that have been percolating in my brain for a while. Some of them are written down in Word documents, but, frankly, given my success rate in getting writings published (or even "to a publisher for consideration") I think writing them out in a somewhat more public place might be a good idea.

Legend (presumably true legend) has it that Descartes came up with his famous "cogito, ergo sum" by trying to deal with what he could be certain that he knew. He couldn't be sure of anything except that *SOMETHING* was trying to figure out what was known/knowable.

I tried to do something similar with the concept of morality. What would a moral, wise person do, or be like? What could we know about morality if we had to assume we knew nothing?

( This looks like an easy place for a cut-tag... )

(no subject)

There are a couple of threads in alt.callahans that made me want to set some ideas down that have been percolating in my brain for a while. Some of them are written down in Word documents, but, frankly, given my success rate in getting writings published (or even "to a publisher for consideration") I think writing them out in a somewhat more public place might be a good idea.

Legend (presumably true legend) has it that Descartes came up with his famous "cogito, ergo sum" by trying to deal with what he could be certain that he knew. He couldn't be sure of anything except that *SOMETHING* was trying to figure out what was known/knowable.

I tried to do something similar with the concept of morality. What would a moral, wise person do, or be like? What could we know about morality if we had to assume we knew nothing?

( This looks like an easy place for a cut-tag... )