PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Heinrich Himmler, Moral Agency
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If we could know that we had the good morality, then no problem. Instead ask about what morality says: = think in terms of general rules. A bad morality: one that we vehemently disagree with, don"t have proof that ours is better (can claim it is, but won"t know) Sympathy: any sort of positive feeling you feel towards sthg else. In general, all the cases he looks at has to do with bad moralities: sense of community, bad feeling when someone suffers. Jim forms friendship with jim and feels bad about jim"s situation: doesn"t want to turn jim in even though he thinks the right thing for him to do is to turn him in since jim is someone"s property. 2016-03-14: feels bad that jim is in this predicament. Idea of turning jim to authorities makes him feel sick: yet these feelings doesn"t lead to him to think that his morals are wrong.
