Tag: kant
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Betting
Pascal’s wager from his Pensées, §233 (isn’t it wonderful we can just link to the raw unfettered text?) is that you should bet for the infinite upside and believe in God. Pascal states, 1) “According to reason, you can do neither the one thing nor the other” and 2) “Yes; but you must wager. It…
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‘ought implies can
I steadily become more of a fan of Kant. He has an excellent principle ‘ought implies can’ (Does this simplify to ‘should implies could’?). Going by the principle of ‘Keep It Simple’ with words as well as concepts, I thoroughly like it. The full sentence from his book ‘Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason’:…
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Utility
I’ve always struggled to agree with economics. I have a masters in economics, but the more I studied it, the less impressed I became. Utility seems like such a weasel word. I found this table on the interwebs when trying to clarify in my mind about utility: I hate the terms ‘Kantianism’ and ‘Utilitarianism’, we…
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