PHL 101 Lecture : The priority of morality

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Socrates claims that morality is really parasitic on morality. Even a gang of thieves or pirates have to be at least somewhat moral in their treatment of each other if they want to achieve their immoral aims. If they were completely immoral if they couldn"t rely at all on each other, if they were always stealing from each other and killing each other they couldn"t carry out their projects. But immorality will have the same effect within the individual soul that it has within a community: it will lead to disorder and disintegration, and so it will prevent the individual from functioning properly. Therefore, immorality can"t be a virtue of the soul or mind. Rather, it must be morality that is the virtue or good state of the mind. Therefore: there is some virtue or good state of the mind that enables it to perform this function.

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