PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Xun Kuang, Empathy, Erich Fromm
30 Aug 2016
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Amorality--lacking in moral sense; unconcerned with rightness or wrongness. Wickedness--performing an evil action in full knowledge that it is evil. Deep wickedness--performing evil knowing that it is evil, because it is evil. De waal (primate morality) nietzsche (morality as an. Man"s nature is good and that all evil arises because he loses his original nature. Reflection is essential to moral development; forcing one to reflect on whether their actions were moral or immoral leads to growth and understanding. Immorality results from: a failure to think/reflect, favoring a lesser/petty part of self, a hostile environment (surrounded by immoral people), basic needs not met, or a natural moral impulse being distorted and unrestrained. The metaphor of the sprout- structure of oak tree implicit in seedling; structure of morality implicit in us. All normal people feel natural moral impulses, e. g. child at the well (2a6: unburied bodies of parents (3a5, beggar refusing food (6a10) Irony of innocent man comparison; failure to think.
