tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post4501823864249205211..comments2024-03-18T20:24:18.935-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Going far beyond the normal operating conditions of humansAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-58289904016693032182015-08-19T10:30:46.074-05:002015-08-19T10:30:46.074-05:00Austin:
That's an interesting alternative. To...Austin:<br /><br />That's an interesting alternative. To fit with the insuperability of some of these far-out questions, though, we would have to suppose that somehow all the rules aren't accessible to us. But that fits poorly with natural law, divine command as well as Kant, on all of which the rules are accessible to us.<br /><br />Heath:<br /><br />Thanks for the reference! Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-6981361366908626282015-08-18T08:45:36.675-05:002015-08-18T08:45:36.675-05:00Austin,
It's in a book called _Philosophy in ...Austin,<br /><br />It's in a book called _Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy_ edited by Schneewind, Skinner, and Rorty. A good university library should have the book. Otherwise the article is available on the web for a fee, it looks like.<br /><br />HeathHeath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-79116904114932719462015-08-18T08:17:19.534-05:002015-08-18T08:17:19.534-05:00Heath, do you know where I can get my hands on tha...Heath, do you know where I can get my hands on that paper? It sounds interesting.Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755810627119315845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-39506155863496428532015-08-17T18:55:37.408-05:002015-08-17T18:55:37.408-05:00Schneewind, in "The divine corporation and th...Schneewind, in "The divine corporation and the history of ethics"--very good article--argues that natural law has a picture like this: humanity is a very complex cooperative endeavor, and so God assigns us each a role/job/position which it is our duty to carry out. Hence deontology. But God himself is overseeing the enterprise and he might be a utilitarian (Butler) or anyway not limited deontologically. We humans, though, do not have the necessary understanding to constructively depart from our assigned role.Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-278973613949960462015-08-17T16:06:13.332-05:002015-08-17T16:06:13.332-05:00Or we could take the Aristotelian route and suppos...Or we could take the Aristotelian route and suppose that a system of rules could never precisely embody ethics in the first place. I doubt it could be said that phronesis could be applied accurately to your boundary conditions.<br /><br />But your post actually makes me think of Plantinga's EAAN. I wonder if a weaker argument could be made by arguing that we should not expect our cognitive faculties to track truth so far beyond the operating conditions we would expect truth-tracking to coincide with survival (at a very basic level).Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755810627119315845noreply@blogger.com