PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egotism, Categorical Imperative, Meta-Ethics
12 Jan 2016
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If we lived in a ppp, everything would operate through miracles or divine feet. God intervening all the time would mess with laws of nature. Every person living within a ppp, would be living in their own illusion, own tiny little world by themselves. No one could do anything good or bad either. Because wanting is suffering and therefore you can"t be kind or unkind. You could feel unkind and unhappy but god would make sure no one else would experience it. No honesty, no justice, no virtues could exist. There would be no growth of our personal being. You"d need a world on dependable laws of nature. You"d have to know if you did this something would follow as consequence. You"d have to have a world with genuine difficulties, with failures, all pains, however you could also have ethics and morality, natural laws and science. We"d have to learn how to be generous and courageous.
