(August 7, 2019 at 8:43 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: But what if you didn't love your daughters? What if you hated them? Would you still be "obligated" not to fail them?
Yes, because I’m obligated to love them, whether I do or not.
Imagine being a child of such a father, his failing would be quite evident. “He wasn’t a good father, when he ought to have been a good father.”
Quote: None of my life duties obligates me to do anything. If I fail in some of my duties, there may be consequences. But that doesn't mean that consequences determine my duties. "The Good" or the "making things better than they are, are what defines my moral objective.
I agree it’s the Good that defines our goal. It is what obligates us.
The Good doesn’t exist as a pretty dress in a window which I can casually decide whether I want to put on, hence why Plato’s description involves the collective murder of the one trying to reveal it to the cave dwellers.
