(July 25, 2014 at 3:41 pm)alpha male Wrote:(July 25, 2014 at 3:31 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Why bother? "Intellectual knowledge" of right and wrong is the only possible avenue to morality, because right and wrong are abstractions.I have to disagree. Personally I have a deeper or different knowledge of a wrong after I have committed it, although I intellectually knew it was wrong before I did it. Don't you?
Certainly someone of your wisdom would understand that without my having to point it out.
The word you're looking for is regret. It's not knowledge.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson