 Ethical Missing Link Found In Kansas Ethical scientists are converging on the small town of Winslow, Kansas as word gets out about what may be the missing link between traditional ethics of the past and a modern ethics of free individuality –"ethical intuition". Wayne Trimble, local college student home for Summer vacation gave this account, “Got up this morning and was thinking about what I should do today in purely conceptual terms without any reference to any specific things. I saw a certain value in all ethical principles and asked which principle is the more important in this moment, and suddenly an intuition sprung out of my thinking.” Wayne explained excitedly, “I then carried out an action determined purely and simply by its own ideal content. Of course, I was mindful of my current circumstances in the decision making process, but these did not determine my action; it sprang out of the ideal content of my thinking alone." Hoax? Could this be a hoax? Skeptics gathered around Wayne looking to debunk his claim of a free ethical impulse by trying to find evidence of conditioned behavior, obedience to an external authority or a fixed ethical principle. Dr. Specklebaum, of the Normative Ethics Institute, explained, "Of course this kid thinks every jackass idea he gets is a free impulse. We will find the unconscious urge behind his action and end this nonsense." |
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Is our deed free?
Is our deed free? While motives may contain a mix of influences, we can use a process called “characterization of the action” (POF 12-9) by which we observe our deed to gain knowledge of the decisive factor in the motive to learn whether it was in fact conceptual intuition or something else.
Theres no hope for Specklebaum. At the moment....
He is convinced that his sphere of expertise is threatened by our Wayne's methodology.
Chill Specky! You're number one in your league! Respect too, your an expert in your sphere-and a valid and real sphere it is for sure. Its just that you are using last years equipment, and it simply doesn't register in all directions.
The boy Trimble aint no threat at all to you, he's just pointing his scope in a different direction, thats all. You do the same and soon enough you'll be saying the same things he is.
Can you hack it man?
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