[lit-ideas] Maximin Redux
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:04:32 EDT
Unmaximed actions
In a message dated 6/7/2009 12:53:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
something intrinsically wrong about such
maxims and actions. ...I have yet to find a cogent account of how moral
wrongness or rightness can be
"intrinsic" to a maxim or action
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I think the account by W. O. leaves unaccounted 'unmaxims actions', e.g.
make love, going out fishing, see the sunset, and walk the dog.
"maxim" I find is hyperbolic, seeing they are so _little_
('narrow-minded'). I call them 'minims'. And indeed Asha Kasher,
"Conversational maxims and
rationality", calls them, 'maximin".
Cheers,
JL Speranza
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