Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!burl!clyde!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!dmcanzi From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.philosophy Subject: Re: God, Goedel, Wittgenstein Message-ID: <1841@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 00:38:41 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1841 Posted: Tue Nov 5 00:38:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:11:56 EST References: <10673@ucbvax.ARPA> <1744@akgua.UUCP> <788@cybvax0.UUCP> <613@spar.UUCP> <1791@watdcsu.UUCP> <623@spar.UUCP> <2031@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 Xref: linus net.religion:7755 net.philosophy:2765 Summary: In article <2031@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes: Thanks, Rich. I'm glad you liked what I said, but it turns out I didn't quite say what I really wanted to say. In response to Michael saying that ethics is some kind of "higher" truth that can only be learned via revelation, I meant to say: "Ethics" is a word we use to describe a process in which humans evaluate the actions of themselves and others. Given that the human being performing these evaluations is a physical system, ethical evaluation is a physical activity. So you can think of ethics as a branch of physics. (Beep, beep, robot buddy.) -- David Canzi "Permission is not freedom."