<div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/25 Dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>For the record, I don't believe that's what Socrates believed -- if Plato's works are any guide. It seems to me he believed there were moral truths that were discoverable by reason and that were not inventions of the gods (or God), social convention, or the state. (One need not agree with his particular moral claims here or even with his particular methods to agree with this wider point.<var></var>)</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Does not change much, does it? The real issue is whether one believes in self-determination and diversity or in value systems which are allegedly eternal and universal, irrespective of whether they are revealed (albeit obviously not established) by God, by inner outrage or by Reason.<br>
<br>Let us say that anti-transhumanists are invariably in the second camp, and they may play one or another of such cards depending on their background or audience, "inner outrage" and "puck factor" being however especially fashionable in recent days.<br>
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</div><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Damien Broderick <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com" target="_blank">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>><br></div><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 22, 2011 5:15 PM<div class="im"><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Libertarianism wins again...<br></div></font><div class="im">
<br>On 7/22/2011 3:12 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:<br><br>> Socrates made good arguments that<br>> what is right and wrong doesn't come from God or the state, but from<br>> an inner state of outrage at the criminal act.<br>
<br>Ah, sturdy
foundations of outrage such as "Those stinking disgusting ho-mo-sex-uals make me *puke*! Get the pitch and pitchfork, Mabel!"<br><br>Damien Broderick</div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>