[MD] Kant's Motorcycle

[Heather Perella]

     [Case]
> Bentham's contention that we act so as to receive
> pleasure and avoid pain
> strikes me as dead on. They are of course problems
> with creating an ethics
> out of this and whole greatest good theory has its
> own set of problems but
> at least it is based on something observable.

     Sure, based on experience, if that's what you
mean by observable.

     [Case] 
> In addition whether they, ought to or not much of
> what drives our culture
> today is the cynical and purposeful manipulation of
> pleasure and pain.


     I'm not big on Kant or philosophies in general,
except Zen and MoQ, and whatever mood strikes me at
the time.  I just thought I'd insert some Kant into a
Kant thread.  Yet, could you please explain what you
mean by "...drives our culture today is the cynical
and purposeful manipulation of pleasure and pain."

thanks,
SA
  


 
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