ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Oral Stage, Rastafari, Adolf Eichmann
14 Aug 2020
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Helps us to know what to do; what to not do. Mostly prohibitions, but also requires us to live up to certain obligations. Personal issues may be had with this though. Engineering first moral duty is to the public good, to society. He had a normalized understanding of what was in the public good. Not only a cultural question; also genetic; eugenics. He pleaded to "the banality of evil", that he was simply following orders. In relation to norms that were in place. Canada didn"t help out jews because it wasn"t normalized. Thus, the importance of thinking critically and seriously about our norms. And what we take for granted without thinking. Moral (like the term ethics), comes from the latin root "mores" Habits of thought related to habits of action, institutionalized. With designated power to represent these habits of thought that we think are important for good citizens to be formed well.
