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PhilosophyBy David - January 24, 2007 12:19 pm
Intuitionist
You scored 85 Objectivism, 31 Naturalism, and 65 Cognitivism!
Many judges and much of the legal system is Intuitionist (as far as it goes, philosophically) in outlook to some degree. “Ethical intuitionism is usually understood as a meta-ethical theory that embraces the following theses: Moral realism, the view that there are objective facts about value, ethical non-naturalism, the view that these evaluative facts cannot be reduced to natural facts, and he thesis that we sometimes have intuitive awareness of value, or intuitive knowledge of evaluative facts, which forms the foundation of our ethical knowledge.”

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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You scored higher than 99% on Objectivism
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You scored higher than 99% on Naturalism
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You scored higher than 99% on Cognitivism

Link: The Meta-ethical Theories Test (via Johnny-Dee)
Philosophy of LawBy David - January 22, 2007 12:16 pm

See here. The last paragraph is the most powerful. A more thorough post on the retributivist theory of justice is in the works. I basically agree with Lewis but there’s at least one compelling argument Lewis doesn’t make that I want to explore. Stay tuned.

WhateverBy David - January 21, 2007 2:26 am

Ben Franklin (quoted here):

Our People set about catching Cod, & haul’d up a great many. Hitherto I had stuck to my Resolution of not eating animal Food; and on this Occasion, I consider’d . . . the taking every Fish as a kind of unprovok’d Murder, since none of them had or ever could do us any Injury that might justify the Slaughter. All this seem’d very reasonable. But I had formerly been a great Lover of Fish, & when this came hot out of the Frying Pan, it smeled admirably well. I balanc’d some time between Principle & Inclination: till I recollected, that when the Fish were opened, I saw smaller Fish taken out of their Stomachs: Then thought I, if you eat one another, I don’t see why we mayn’t eat you. So I din’d upon Cod very heartily and continu’d to eat with other People, returning only now & then occasionally to a vegetable Diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do.