[lit-ideas] Re: Socratic Congress

Robert: To say that only Kant knew what was morally right (or wrong) while the peasants in the countryside near Königsberg did not, is a bit like saying that nobody could distinguish truth from falsity until the advent of the late Donald Davidson.
While Steinway baby grands have a terrific, ochre-chestnut bell tones and range hammer-or-velvet sound, Yamahas are great for pianissimo effects of suspended or rippling treble mist.
Every absolute view carries its own exceptions -- as in condemnation of torture on all occasions. In the nuclear-bomb-ticking-clock scenario, somebody's gonna get tortured, either the captured terrorist or the survivors of the blast. Or both. 



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