tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24504461.post6546233717617160492..comments2024-02-19T22:24:48.553-06:00Comments on Ite ad Thomam Institute: Casa Santa Lidia: The trouble with Kant: couldn't have said it better myselfUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24504461.post-80669183136115041742011-09-22T02:54:24.359-05:002011-09-22T02:54:24.359-05:00Sic, Alan. The paradox pointed out at Casa Santa L...Sic, Alan. The paradox pointed out at Casa Santa Lidia is as maddening as Kant's concept of reality: 'You don't know the the blue pen, but rather the blueness and the penness of...the thing.' Once you trap the origins of knowledge in the mind, you'll never get out again.<br /><br />Another disturbing thing about Kant's ethics though is that the best ethical actions are Jacobitesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03723557335968316270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24504461.post-49040037244153600042011-09-21T21:24:56.419-05:002011-09-21T21:24:56.419-05:00If you don't have a proper metaphysics, you wo...If you don't have a proper metaphysics, you won't have a proper ethics. See Stephen Long's "<a href="http://www.thomistica.net/news/2011/9/18/goods-without-normative-order-to-the-good-life-happiness-or.html" rel="nofollow">'Goods' Without Normative Order to the Good Life, Happiness, or God: The New Natural Law Theory and the Nostrum of Incommensurability</a>."<br /><Geremiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11812810552682098086noreply@blogger.com