http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/07/fired-for-the-natural-law-part-i-against-the-laws-of-nature/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/07/fired-for-the-natural-law-part-i-against-the-laws-of-nature/#comment-59418 David Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:31:41 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=12163#comment-59418 Looking forward to part2. Looking forward to part2.

]]> http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/07/fired-for-the-natural-law-part-i-against-the-laws-of-nature/#comment-59362 Empedocles Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:18:29 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=12163#comment-59362 Utilitarianism is in part a way to try to fit morality into a world that has been stripped of teleology. Since Newton did away with the Aristotelian physics, final causes have been hunted out of philosophy and science. However, there has been a revival of teleology in recent decades, lead by Millikan's landmark <i>Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories</i>. I recommend everyone here read "The Modern Philosophical Resurrection of Teleology" by Mark Perlman to get up to date on the various positions on the issue. It is available here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1364/is_1_87/ai_n29112178/ Utilitarianism is in part a way to try to fit morality into a world that has been stripped of teleology. Since Newton did away with the Aristotelian physics, final causes have been hunted out of philosophy and science. However, there has been a revival of teleology in recent decades, lead by Millikan’s landmark Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories. I recommend everyone here read “The Modern Philosophical Resurrection of Teleology” by Mark Perlman to get up to date on the various positions on the issue. It is available here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1364/is_1_87/ai_n29112178/

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