[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:10:56 -0400

> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/31/2005 3:27:53 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Inner Moral Law
>
> Andy: Moral law presumably is in G-d's law.  At least some people 
> think so.
>
>
> Eric: The idea of an inner moral law is a lot less hifalutin than 
> you are construing it.
>
> Imagine that you are faced with a moral choice between betraying a 
> friendship and allowing a thief to go unpunished. The particulars of 
> the situation are highly complex, and you have to feel your way to 
> the right choice.
>
> You use your inner moral sense to do this.
>
>


Yes, but it's the external law, the knowledge that the friend will go to
jail if turned in, that causes the moral compass to quiver.  Without the
external law, there is no moral question.  Therefore, it's the moral law
that keeps society functioning, not the, still alleged, inner moral law. 



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