The Paradox of Ethics

Kant was already aware of these paradox when he deployed his notion of enthusiasm a proper ethical stance an innermost constituent of every ethical stance. The more universal our ethics is the more brutal the underlying exclusion is what the Christian all-inclusive attitude St Paul's famous there are no men or women means for those who do not accept inclusion into the Christian community in other particularistic religions even in islam. There is a place for others they are tolerated even if they are looked upon with condescension by western admirers of the soviet union.