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What moral obligation? Based on what framework of morality?
by throwaway292924 4y ago
What moral obligation? Based on what framework of morality?
- nixpulvis 4y agoBespoke imposter! Let not your words penetrate my foundations. Let not your questions hold value in it of themselves. For you ask nothing with thinly veiled rhetoric. Now be gone, cast away with fervor and dismay.
- throwaway292924 4y agolol what? if you claim it to be a moral imperative. Moral based upon what?
- nixpulvis 4y agoFine I'll humor you with a quick quote. Arthur Schopenhauer; Ueber die Grundlage der Moral, 1840: "the everyday phenomenon of compassion, … the immediate participation, independent of all ulterior considerations, primarily in the suffering of another, and thus in the prevention or elimination of it…. Only insofar as an action has sprung from compassion does it have moral value; and every action resulting from any other motives has none."
- throwaway292924 4y agoFan of Mr.Schopenhauer, but unsure if this quote provides grounding for your objective moral imperative. This only says that actions derived from compassion are the only actions that have moral value. No explanation of why that is the case nor does it create a necessity for moral action. From the Schopenhauer perspective, the 'right' answer if I recall correctly is to embrace asceticism. To deny the will.
- nixpulvis 4y agoWhelp, I tried.