Brian Leiter
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530 appearances
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first heard Sep 2009
last heard Sep 2010
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Uh John Lennon.
Uh
Let's fine-tune the John Lennon case a little bit, right?
Picking up in particular on your suggestion that someone with the John Lennon view about the meaning of life is never going to go to war, right?
So the John Lennon view is a kind of severe form of pacifism, right?
Such that it's absolutely out of the question, even if conscripted, to in fact comply with that sort of rule, right?
And now the question is.
Yeah.
What kinds of beliefs is the pacifism based on?
Now, all I sort of heard here was, you know, all you need is love, right?
It's some kind of say moral imperative, right, that our fundamental obligation is to love everyone else.
Good.
Okay.
So uh for those listening at home, Mark is nodding his head in agreement here.
So let's pursue the example that way because I do think, and now we can generalize.
the possible counterexample.
What about morality quite generally?
What about moral views quite generally?
Certainly on a common understanding of
say Kant's most obviously moral views about the purpose of life, what we have to do in life and so on, impose categorical demands on action.
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