PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Amenable Group
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Similar to singer"s ideas about how love goes beyond objective appraisal. Example: court of law: plea of insanity vs. self defense. Distinction between loving and acting on feelings of love, which can be morally wrong or irrational. Acting on feelings is amendable to justification, having the feelings is not. Having feelings of love (or not) is something that happens to us rather than something that we choose to do. Giving reasons for why you should believe something or do something. Associated with argument where you are attempting to prove a particular point. Giving an account of how something has come to be the case, not why it should be the case. Comparable love with anger (which is amenable to justification) We can readily identify justified (rational) vs. unjustified (irrational) anger. To be angry with someone who"s done nothing to you is irrational.