[lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler problem?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:14:37 -0400
Morality may be grounded in rationality, but rationality is subservient to
the emotions. Therefore, morality is either grounded in the emotions or
it's an academic construct. Maybe that's why humanity talks a good line
about morality while their behavior is downright venal. And that's on a
good day. On a bad day ...
> [Original Message]
> From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/25/2006 10:38:57 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler
problem?
>
> Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:
> snip
>
> > If
> > two men both in principle endorse horrible violence,
> > then the only moral criterion that remains to
> > distinguish between them is that one was prepared to
> > live up to his principles, while the other was not. I
> > stand behind what I said in the above, but within its
> > proper context.
> >
> > O.K.
>
> Irrational consistency cannot constitute a moral criterion since morality
is
> grounded in rationality. The perceptually challenged baseball umpire who
always
> calls a pitch two inches below the strike zone a strike is acting with
perfect
> consistency. (Source: Habermas or Larmore, I think.) It remains the case,
> however, that he should not be an umpire.
>
> (But then is it still true that, in the words of one
epistemologically-oriented
> umpire: "They [the pitches] ain't nuttin' til I calls 'em."?)
>
> Rooting for Deutschland ueber alles,
>
> Dr. O.
>
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