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Contents 1 ethics category 2 Categorical imperative 3 Links with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy] 4 Wikipedia Day Awards

[edit] ethics category

I see that there is already an ethics category, which might be a good place to start searching and/or adding to relevant articles. (I'm not sure how to link to this in a discussion--it wants to go at the bottom) WhiteC 19:54, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

You can link to categories using [[:Category:Ethics]] and it will show up like this: Category:Ethics. --malathion ^talk 18:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Ah, many thanks. I just removed the bit at the bottom of the talk here (for reference it was [[Category:Ethics]] ). WhiteC 04:53, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categorical imperative

I just totally rewrote this article. I'm looking for some peer review fact and NPOV checking. --malathion ^talk 11:50, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Looks good in general (I'm not a Kant expert), but why did you remove all the criticisms of the theory? WhiteC 22:35, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Two reasons (I knew this might look suspicious):

1. The objections in that article were, in my opinion, very bad. It's not just that I don't agree with them. But they completely miss the boat, for the most part, with the possible exception of the enquiring murderer.
2. The categorical imperative is more of an idea than a theory. Since the use of the categorical imperative is practically synonomous with Deontology nowadays, I thought it would be better to let Categorical imperative be a reference article to explain the principle, and have the criticisms of the broader theory of deontology go in that article. --malathion ^talk 22:44, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, I guess that would make sense. Could (some of) those criticisms be moved to Deontology then? I'm not sure how the two should be split myself--I don't know that much about any other deontological ideas, and these criticisms seemed to me to have more in them that those on the deontology page. WhiteC 23:14, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, revamping Deontology is my next big project. After that, it's Utilitarianism :-) I ordered a couple books I plan to use as references, and once they arrive, I'll get to it. --malathion ^talk 01:26, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy]

I'm taking the liberty of adding the {{Philosophy}} banner to each of the sub-projects - hope this is OK with you. No Wiki imperialism is intended, this is not a take-over bid, nor an invasion; just a way to link the projects together. Banno 21:00, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)