PHILOS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rationality
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Hardin > grazing sheep > too many sheep grazing > ruin. No technical solution: not solved by technology in a finite world. Violation of the un charter of human rights. Protecting the general good, high population = death, necessary to stop. Welfare state prevents children"s natural death, not meant to die idea. Ineffective, conscience isn"t inherited by people who don"t adhere to it. Good or bad is determined by facts in the situation. Full: reason covers ends and means, worth pursuing > not wasted (selfish interests) Weak: a mistake against solution fail to act with rationality > acts against it reason over means not ends. Morality is the privilege of the middle class. In bad environment > people don"t behave properly.
