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Moral rules vs moral sense
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RE: Moral rules vs moral sense
June 13, 2012 at 9:58 am (This post was last modified: June 13, 2012 at 9:59 am by Angrboda.)



You're missing an additional distinction. Some ethics is based on prohibited actions, but there is also the values approach to ethics, and the tradition of virtue, wherein being ethical consists in cultivating your own virtue, out of which good and ennobling conduct will flow. (This is the path of the Taoist.)

Moreover, ethics is not for those who behave, but those who misbehave, and how will we be conscious of where we fall without respect to some standard? Moreover, if moral reasoning gets better with practice (possible), there may be reason to practice.

I have a new quote somewhere which I can't find, so I'll paraphrase. We learn about ourselves in learning to tolerate others. I would add that we learn about ourselves by studying others, and that includes ethics.

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Moral rules vs moral sense - by Whateverist - June 13, 2012 at 8:56 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by frankiej - June 13, 2012 at 9:00 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Angrboda - June 13, 2012 at 9:58 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 10:04 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Whateverist - June 13, 2012 at 11:09 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 12:43 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Whateverist - June 13, 2012 at 3:26 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 4:17 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Whateverist - June 13, 2012 at 5:49 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 6:57 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Whateverist - June 14, 2012 at 12:35 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 14, 2012 at 4:31 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Angrboda - June 14, 2012 at 2:51 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Hovik - June 14, 2012 at 3:00 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by Tempus - June 13, 2012 at 10:10 am
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by The Grand Nudger - June 13, 2012 at 12:46 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 1:16 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by The Grand Nudger - June 13, 2012 at 2:16 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 2:50 pm
RE: Moral rules vs moral sense - by The Grand Nudger - June 13, 2012 at 4:33 pm

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