Wednesday, May 07, 2025

"Reasons can always be found" for wickedness (Graphic)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

The quoted phrase, "Gründe lassen sich immer finden," was spoken by my old philosophy professor, Herr Hans Joachim Krämer (1929-2014), in a seminar one night, at the E. Karls Universität Tübingen, sometime during the mid-1980s. Herr Krämer may well have been criticizing the "good reasons" school of ethics of Stephen Toulmin (1922-2009), et al.





1 comment:

Anonymous said...

While perusing some articles,I ran across your piece--explaining "monsters"--from 2013. Excellent observations,N.S.

--GRA