> Maybe the fascist must appeal to mechanical-ism because his philosophy is fundamentally emotion-driven.
I don't feel like this is the case. Fundamentally all philosophy that has moral prescriptions is emotion-driven.
That is to say, this is the case in all philosophies that say that something "ought" (or "ought not") to be. To say that something "ought" to be a specific way, you can't just rationally and objectively look at the material world. That only tells you how things are, not how they ought to be. You have to cross Hume's Is/Ought gap at some point, and that can't be done objectively. Any philosophy that does this can be undermined by the average two year old asking "Why?" enough times.
You have to start with some fundamental moral assumptions in order to get an ought, and those are just absolutely dripping with emotion.
I don't feel like this is the case. Fundamentally all philosophy that has moral prescriptions is emotion-driven.
That is to say, this is the case in all philosophies that say that something "ought" (or "ought not") to be. To say that something "ought" to be a specific way, you can't just rationally and objectively look at the material world. That only tells you how things are, not how they ought to be. You have to cross Hume's Is/Ought gap at some point, and that can't be done objectively. Any philosophy that does this can be undermined by the average two year old asking "Why?" enough times.
You have to start with some fundamental moral assumptions in order to get an ought, and those are just absolutely dripping with emotion.