Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!sun!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.philosophy Subject: Re: truth & ethics Message-ID: <767@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 21:51:30 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.767 Posted: Mon Dec 17 21:51:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:49:09 EST References: <10@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.religion:5149 net.philosophy:1322 > = Ken Arndt > My guy. I was about to enter a humble apology for misusing your name when > I read your question - ". . . why dows the 'search for truth [presuppose] > ethics"? Yiiks!! Look up the definition of Ethics! OK, I did: "1. the study of standards of conduct and moral judgement; moral philosophy. 2. a treatise on this study 3. the system or code of morals of a particular person, religion group, profession, etc." [ Webster's New World Dictionary ] I'm still not getting the 'search for truth presupposes ethics' part. It seems that the search for truth can be quite unethical (eg, medical experiments of Nazis). Maybe I have the wrong dictionary. (I didn't fall asleep in my liberal arts classes, I dropped out of them! In particular I didn't like the "Ethics" class because my first question was "Why be ethical(moral)?" and the instructor didn't want to answer that one (yet). So I saw no point in going). > Glad you like my humor. For that alone I will apologize for goofin' up your > name and getting your stand on the issues wrong. i apologize There! > > It was hard but I did it. These words should be bronzed. > By the way, guy, Gordon is my middle name! Really. Kenneth Gordon Arndt! > > Don't you just love it? I do. What does the A. stand for? Arthur. -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam 37 22'50" N / 121 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ]