[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 03:10:30 -0400
Phil: With the principle 'Do not harm the other', what will vary,
among other things, is the extension of 'the other' but there will
remain the moral understanding that doing harm has a moral quality.
Eric: Your objection makes sense. Seems severely Platonist though.
Or at least a top-down view of things. (For example, what do you
mean "remain"?)
Our knowledge of "harm" and "other" grows. Its not a mere extension.
The varying, or extension, or whatever you want to call it has a
moral quality by itself, namely that of transcending and including
its earlier forms. Our knowledge of "harm" and "other" grows. This
seems to be true of both our collective and individual lives.
I will admit that "the moral understanding that doing harm has a
moral quality will remain," if you will admit that moral judgment
grows by redefining not only its objects but also its own capacity
to assess. And that growth is an action, obviously.
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