[lit-ideas] Alice on Universalizability
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:35:02 -0500 (EST)
Interesting that McEvoy should mention universalizability:
"Being human, sooner or later Walter was going to say something that sits
ill
with a Kantian universalizability of maxims. But, hey, it's New Year."
Indeed. Hey.
This reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland:
-----
`Please, would you tell me -- ' Alice began, looking timidly at the Red
Queen.
`Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her.
`But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for
a little argument, `and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the
other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say
anything, so that -- '
`Ridiculous!' cried the Queen.
----- I wonder if it is all as ridiculous as the Red Queen thought it was.
Cheers,
Speranza
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