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Letters
Letters
Gyges Escapes Again! • Regressive Tendencies? • Are Incompetent Murderers OK? • Marks of Progress • Regressive Tendencies?
Gyges Escapes Again!
DEAR EDITOR: Despite everything, Gyges will still escape from Arnold Zuboff’s perfect grasp into the terrible freedom of moral uncertainty.
In his letter in Issue 33 of Philosophy Now, Arnold Zuboff writes: “Gyges… may easily calculate… that a perfect grasp would reveal an immeasurably greater value in the life of the stranger than in the acquisition of £10”. But value has to be value for somebody. A splendid new pair of climbing boots is of no value at all for a man with no legs.
So there are two possibilities.
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