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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

So many self reports in the comments, take this one for example:

But moral frameworks require more than sentiment. They need universality and consistency, which only rules and duties can provide.

The historical Nazis would agree and insist everything they did was legal and their duties compelled them to action.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Who tf is Iris Murdoch?

    The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, however, insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality. She begins two of her most famous essays with assertions of the significance of love in ethics, claiming in ‘The Idea of Perfection’ (1962) that ‘love is a central concept in morals’, and in ‘On “God” and “Good”’ (1969) that ‘we need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.’

    Okay. Cool, ig.

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