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		grumple on Aug 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath fo... I think you might find some intro philosophy useful to understand how you can have a universal morality without a deity. Some Kant is a good place to start, with his universal law being a fundamental idea.

smabie on Aug 10, 2020 [–]

I actually majored in philosophy, Kant presupposes the existence of God in his assumption about the specialness of rational (i.e human) beings.

I never liked my ethics classes. Phenomenology and existialism is my shit, though I suspect Husserl was the inspiration for GPT-3.

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