Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Immanuel Kant and John Kekes
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
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Without God, creation and free will, morality would be empty [Kant]
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Duty is impossible without prior moral feeling, conscience, love and self-respect [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
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Values are an attempt to achieve well-being by bringing contingencies under control [Kekes]
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Values help us to control life, by connecting it to what is stable and manageable [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Responsibility is unprovoked foreseeable harm, against society, arising from vicious character [Kekes]
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Moral and causal responsibility are not clearly distinct [Kekes]
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Morality should aim to prevent all evil actions, not just autonomous ones [Kekes]
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Much human evil is not autonomous, so moral responsibility need not be autonomous [Kekes]
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Effects show the existence of moral responsibility, and mental states show the degree [Kekes]
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Evil people may not be autonomously aware, if they misjudge the situation [Kekes]
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Ought implies can means moral responsibility needs autonomy [Kekes]
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Why should moral responsibility depend on autonomy, rather than social role or experience? [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Kant united religion and philosophy, by basing obedience to law on reason instead of faith [Taylor,R on Kant]
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The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be [MacIntyre on Kant]
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Only human reason can confer value on our choices [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Reason and morality do not coincide; immorality can be reasonable, with an ideology [Kekes]
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Practical reason is not universal and impersonal, because it depends on what success is [Kekes]
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If morality has to be rational, then moral conflicts need us to be irrational and immoral [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Kant thought human nature was pure hedonism, so virtue is only possible via the categorical imperative [Foot on Kant]
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Liberals assume people are naturally free, equal, rational, and morally good [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Moral principles do not involve feelings [Kant]
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People cannot come to morality through feeling, because morality must not be sensuous [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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We must only value what others find acceptable [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Relativists say all values are relative; pluralists concede much of that, but not 'human' values [Kekes]
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