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If all that matters in morality is motive and intention, that makes moral luck irrelevant [Williams,B]
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Full Idea:
The idea that one's whole life can be immune to luck has not prevailed (e.g. in Christianity), …but its place has been taken by the idea that moral value can be immune, …if it is motive that counts, and in actions it is not worldly changes but intention.
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From:
Bernard Williams (Moral Luck [1976], p.20)
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A reaction:
[compressed] That is, that Kant offers a way to make luck irrelevant to morality. Williams disagrees, but says at least Kant offers 'solace to a sense of the world's unfairness'.
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Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]
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Full Idea:
Existentialists no longer see man against a background of values, of realities, which transcend him. We picture man as a brave naked will.
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From:
Iris Murdoch (Against Dryness: a polemical sketch [1983], p.46), quoted by Kevin Aho - Existentialism: an introduction 7 'Subjectivism'
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A reaction:
It is one thing to deny the values, and another to deny the realities. This piece is a 'polemic', and reads more like an exhortation than a truth. Many of us are, at best, cowardly naked wills.
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