miércoles, 21 de marzo de 2018

WHY ARE MODERN DEBATES ON MORALITY SO SHRILL? - by Brett and Kate McKay


Moral precepts — encouragements of virtue and prohibitions of vice — are rationally based when they lead to a clear telos. If your telos is this, you ought to do that. When a culture lacks a shared telos, and everyone is following their own ultimate aim (or lack such an aim at all), people with competing teloi simply talk past each other, while those without any teloi make moral arguments that sound objective but are really the irrational products of personal preference and emotion.


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Brett and Kate McKay