POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Practical Reason, Misanthropy, Thought Experiment
28 Nov 2012
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The pitch: a warm and fuzzy kant. Preface: why moral phil and not political phil. Moral phil has the most influence in contemporary political phil. A warm and fuzzy kant ridged and inflexible view of morality. Version which is not warm and fuzzy. People who are naturally god not to admire. Admired someone who does not care about humanity. Unsympathetic figure not about conformity but freedom trying to get to the bottom of what is means to be free. Conception of morality 2 kinds of freedom. Morality for a world without outside authority. Strong foundation for morality rational and secular way. Where can we get a strong foundation if out external sources have been questioned/undermined. The rousseau of morality: to be free and yet governed by moral laws law of being free. Its human to see the world from a moral point of view. Morality comes with the hard and software of being human.
