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From: tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory,net.philosophy
Subject: ethics, values, and valuers
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 19:28:12 EDT
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Migrating into net.philosophy (random glitch willing):

>From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
>When you refer to 'An ethically subjective approach to
>values', I initially take that to entail a notion that values
>have no existence EXCEPT to the valuer.  What you may mean to say is that
>values do not have an existence INDEPENDENT of the valuer. [...]
>If you
>say that no values exist independent of the valuer, then you say that there
>is no objective code of priorities -- no objective code of ethics.

(The adverb "ethically" would have been misleading if I had intended the
first interpretation.)  The conclusion is a non sequitur; the observer of
the valuer (at least in this case) is a valuer (of a specific kind) as well.

					David Hudson