all imperatives of Reason have a single source — Bartricks
but first let's agree that Reason is a mind — Bartricks
,to be clear, ......Hitler...... — Bartricks
So, to be clear, you are claiming the we, as individuals, are the source of the imperatives of reason? So 'Reason' is just another word for Bartricks, at least when I am using the term? — Bartricks
So, if I instruct myself to be cruel, then there is an imperative of reason enjoining me to be cruel? — Bartricks
Now, your view entails that Hitler did nothing wrong. — Bartricks
Why are you talking about a faculty of reason? — Bartricks
2. Imperatives of reason have a single source: Reason — Bartricks
Your view is stupid. — Bartricks
I dispute this premise because it seems to me to be ontologically ambiguous. — spirit-salamander
Here, the mundane reason of everyone can be meant (every human being is endowed with the faculty to reason) or already the divine reason (there is in principle only one reason, which does not belong to any human being). The former you consider absurd, because otherwise Hitler would have done nothing wrong. If the latter, you already presuppose what you want to prove. — spirit-salamander
But the former does not imply that Hitler did nothing wrong. It does not follow from it. Indeed, he acted against his moral reason, the principle of which is: to treat every human being at least also as an end in itself. — spirit-salamander
You still don't know my whole view. So you can't call it stupid. You still have a lot to learn about how to discuss philosophically in a dialogue. — spirit-salamander
,to be clear, ......Hitler......
— Bartricks
Please, goodness, not him again. — Cuthbert
I think spirit-salamander 's idea is that there are lots of minds, some of which (at least) are capable of using the faculty of reason. So reason's being a single source of some thing does not entail that a single mind is the source of that thing. — Cuthbert
I know enough to know that your view is stupid. — Bartricks
1. Moral imperatives are imperatives of reason
2. Imperatives of reason have a single source: Reason
3. Only a mind issues imperatives
4. Therefore, moral imperatives are the imperatives of a single mind
5. The single mind whose imperatives are the imperatives of reason will be omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent (God). — Bartricks
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