Kant and Marx in relation to Conscious Evolution A. Nature of this comparison in light of CE 1. Hubbard relates her position to previous developments in philosophy, religion, science 2. To be morally good means to place the universal of humanity above one s purely individual desires. This should flow from moral behavior rather than from the egotistical behavior that seems to be encouraged by the economic system.
Purposes are teleology which is unscientific.
The world studied by science is an appearance, a projection of our subjective approach to it. Our egotistical desires and interests subject us to the control of outside forces, because we do not ourselves cause these desires and interests but find them solicited in us by the perceived environment. Nor is the world of space and time that we perceive before us. Adam Smith s science of society is connected to egotistical perspectives. Intrinsic value is non-existent in this perspective.