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What moralism is interesting to you?
by xpe 3y ago
What moralism is interesting to you?
- dudeinjapan 3y agoAnything to do with trains and levers.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoWhat is it like to be a trolley ? (I had misremembered the author of that original quote, but then : > Daniel Dennett, while sharply disagreeing on some points, acknowledged Nagel's paper ["What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"] as "the most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness.")
- seydor 3y agoNone
- xpe 3y agowhat do you mean by moralism? I doubt that you reject the rationality of caring about behavior. Fair? There are philosophers who talk about morality from the point of view of rationality without making wild* claims about truth. * you have to start with some assumptions, but some are less attractive than others
- seydor 3y agomoralism is not some specific set of morals, but the idea that they should be imposed via whatever means
- xpe 3y agoAccording to a common definition, moralism involves judgment, but not necessarily imposition. From Wikipedia: > The term has been used in a pejorative sense to describe the attitude of "being overly concerned with making moral judgments or being illiberal in the judgments one makes". There is also the 19th century Moralism movement/philosophy, which may have inspired the more general sense of the word, but I’m not sure. I think we should all step back and question whether we all even mean the same thing by the word “imposition”. When I think about imposition, I can see how people could interpret that to mean a wide range of things, including social pressure, religious rules, as well as the force of law. This is why (above) I interpret moralism (the general term) as a kind of judgment, but not necessarily an imposition of rules or punishments.