An open letter to my philosophy teacher.
A Note: I wrote this email to Profesor Bonevac, who teaches Ideas of the Twentieth Century. I found the lecture on normativity lacking in its defense of humanism and in pointing out the horrors of its alternatives. I furthermore found the moral implications of the discoveries of evolution and other naturalistic explanations of the world and ourselves needlessly confused. I now know that not only is Profesor Bonevac cognizant of my concerns but probably agrees with me. I am publishing this simply because I don't want to admit that I may have wasted a Saturday convincing someone of something they already agreed with me on. I have skipped the introduction for brevity and privacy's sake. When I lift weights, I can take measured and reasonable increases, like putting on five pounds on my squat every week to get months of steady strength growth, or I can give myself one big boost between workouts, like say ten pounds on a lift between Monday and Wednesday, and be stuck on that ...