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Old 09-19-2002, 06:55 PM   #71
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And yet, subjectivism leaves one no way to guage 'improvement', not even in one's own behaviour.

Even to claim that one is 'better than the average' is to advocate some sort of standard.

So, to promote any action as beneficial--which even the subjectivists here do--seems to require some sort of standard for comparison.

Unless improvement really isn't the subjectivist's goal...

Keith.

[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: Keith Russell ]</strong>
THIS subjectivist's goal is to bend society in the direction I'd like to see it go. Why do you think I can't try to do this unless I have approval from the Universe beforehand?
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<strong>Just curious as to what you would make of the first couple of chapters about the natural law?</strong>
Lewis was refuted a long time ago. See Beversluis, John. C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmanns, 1985).
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Old 09-19-2002, 09:39 PM   #73
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802800467/" target="_blank">Click here</a> for John Beversluis's book info on Amazon.

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Old 09-22-2002, 04:24 PM   #74
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.....religions to not agree on the same absolute moral system]

My philosophical moral system is based on secular humanism.
What moral systems from antiquity do you think the moral system (systems, maybe?) of secular humanism is based on, or did a few secular humanists recently derive their system of morals from whole cloth?

Where did you say I can get the book Secular Humanistic Morals for Dummies?
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