Saturday, December 14, 2013

Grammar and Morality

That the laws of Geometry are in themselves theoretical does not preclude that the geometrical properties of a tool, e. g. a hammer, do not reflect its usage.  Similarly, the grammatical structure of a sentence can reflect its Moral status.  For example, while the utterance of a Rogative sentence, i. e. 'Will you do X?', respects the independence of its addressee, that of an Imperative implicitly suppresses it, and that of a Declarative sentence is indifferent to the existence of anyone other than the utterer.  Thus, on the basis of the Rogative formation, the privileging of Imperatives, and of Declaratives, is each inherently Morally deficient, regardless of the ambitions of, say, Kant and Russell, respectively.

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