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Re: Moral dilemma

Posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 17:23:29

In reply to Re: Moral dilemma, posted by special_k on March 26, 2006, at 17:13:49

this is from a review

his friend is trying to convince him to escape jail

> He launches three arugements. 1. We should never injury others on any circumstances. Escape from jail and breaks the laws is certainly an act that would put the Laws of Athens on the blink of destruction. 2. You should respect your country's command as if you respect your parents. Since a person's birth, his country provides the protections, regulates the supply of food and enriches him with education. Thus, a person shouls respect his country like or more than he respects his parents. 3. There is a contract between the government and the people. If a person does not like the Laws of a country, he can choose to leave it. If he chooses to stay, that means he signs the contract with government of not ! breaking the laws. If he does not break the laws, the government can't do anything on him. If he does, the government reserves the rights to punish him or even execute him.

apart from being not very well written i think those are the arguments socrates uses... though probably interesting to find them in the original (they don't seem so compelling to me here)

i guess socrates didn't make it to stage 6...
socrates seems to be rather kantian / absolutest... (though even kant recognised duties could conflict)
i wonder what socrates would have said about the moral dilemma...

i take back what i said about ethicists being sophisticated moral reasoners... or maybe not. i guess i have just been contemplating the point that some ethicists are indeed sophisticated moral reasoners in the sense that they engage in very sophisticated moral arguments to justify whatever it is they want to do...

maybe look to those people who seem to exemplify morality / the good life in deed?

like socrates i was going to say... like socrates...

but maybe theorietical morality...
and practical morality...

are two different things...


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