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To: exmarine
His ethics seemed to just hang in mid-air

Why blame him for what he critized others for? Here's a guy that tried to show how people's ethics are hung in mid-air and then for that we join the Athenians and make him drink hemlock for another 2500 years?

787 posted on 05/09/2003 11:20:12 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: cornelis
Why blame him for what he critized others for?

He did realize that ethics are objective (unlike epicureans), but he did not connect them to a source. I'm not criticizing him, just pointing out a simple fact. Ayn Rand objectivists do the same thing! They say certain objective ethical rules exist - but can't name the source! In that sense, Socrates was like Ayn Rand, but the similarity ends there. Ayn Rand has no personal or sexual morals from what I understand, and her ethics were quite compartmentalized. At least Socrates ethics covered a wider spectrum of the human existence.

788 posted on 05/09/2003 11:28:08 AM PDT by exmarine
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