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Right and wrong concerns what other people cannot reasonably reject [Scanlon]
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Full Idea:
Thinking about right and wrong is, at the most basic level, thinking about what could be justified to others on grounds that they, if appropriately motivated, could not reasonably reject.
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From:
Thomas M. Scanlon (What We Owe to Each Other [1998], Intro)
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A reaction:
The tricky bit is that the acceptance by others must be 'reasonable', so we need a reasonably objective view of rationality. Don't picture your neighbours, picture the locals when you are on holiday in a very different culture. Other Nazis?
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Schiller speaks obsessively of freedom throughout his works [Schiller, by Berlin]
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Full Idea:
Schiller constantly speaks of spiritual freedom: freedom of reason, the kingdom of freedom, our free self, inner freedom, freedom of mind, moral freedom, the free intelligence - a very favourite phrase - holy freedom, the impregnable citadel of freedom.
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From:
report of Friedrich Schiller (works [1794]) by Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism
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A reaction:
Kant's philosophy and his Kingdom of Ends are an obvious source for this, but I trace the sentiment back to 'Freeborn John' Lilburne during the English Civil War. The English, thanks to Voltaire, embodied freedom in the Enlightenment.
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