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February 20, 2004

Kantian Konundrums

Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton argues that Immanuel Kant would have approved of the Iraq war. Or, to be more precise, that the war could be morally justified on Kantian principles.

He may be right for all I know, but that still leaves a bunch of unanswered questions:

a. Is it really the job of the U.S. government to engage in random acts of do-goodery, even if a bigshot philosopher would’ve approved?

b. As it is becoming increasingly clear that Iraq posed no serious threat to U.S. security, hasn’t the administration been derelict in its duty by diverting all those resources away from the hunt for al-Qaeda?

c. Is there any evidence that the administration pressed for war because of Kantian-style moral concerns?

By the way, Gene Callahan has an excellent article at LewRockwell.com today about whether a commitment to liberty requires supporting so-called wars of liberation.

Posted by Lee McCracken at February 20, 2004 12:26 PM

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Scruton and all the other "conservatives" who still support the war are busily scratching around for any justification for a war that was obviously undertaken on the basis of lies. If the WMDs had been found, we'd never even have seen Kant dragged into this. Expect Jonah Goldberg to start justifying the war on the basis of Star Trek episodes any day now.

You're right about Callahan's article. It's brief and to the point and nails the issue better than any of the innumerable longer pieces I've read (and written) on the subject.

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