Hi there,
So I wanted to present a model for morality that is different from utilitarianism and deontology. That model is simply:
Gottservant said:
The idea is that you take up this cause, with every new Day and bear out the fact that moral choices, vary day by day, depending on circumstance. In this way the individual comes to identify with heroism (moral heroism), in the true sense of the word that it is a burden begun first in the imagination of what could be and a burden that ends in the mind as to what had to have been.
Let me give examples.
The fat man who could stop a runaway cart on train tracks - if you pushed him -, does not pass this test, because this action is partially right but not most of the time: there may be other runaway carts, other people.
Likewise, telling a white lie does not pass this test, because even if you could do it most of the time, it is not partially right.
As to selecting people to enter a bunker during a nuclear holocaust, a broad spectrum of talent would be reasonable, because it is partially right and also, given a small amount of chance, right most of the time.
I wonder how you will receive my moral idea? Can you see that imagining you are right, but not insisting, is the best pose to take, when it comes to morality?
So I wanted to present a model for morality that is different from utilitarianism and deontology. That model is simply:
Gottservant said:
Essentially, it builds on an experience of trying to be moral. It does not need specific instructions or specific consequences, but adapts, within the confines of the ability of the individual for effort, viz., moral effort.Partially right, most of the time, is moral (selah)
The idea is that you take up this cause, with every new Day and bear out the fact that moral choices, vary day by day, depending on circumstance. In this way the individual comes to identify with heroism (moral heroism), in the true sense of the word that it is a burden begun first in the imagination of what could be and a burden that ends in the mind as to what had to have been.
Let me give examples.
The fat man who could stop a runaway cart on train tracks - if you pushed him -, does not pass this test, because this action is partially right but not most of the time: there may be other runaway carts, other people.
Likewise, telling a white lie does not pass this test, because even if you could do it most of the time, it is not partially right.
As to selecting people to enter a bunker during a nuclear holocaust, a broad spectrum of talent would be reasonable, because it is partially right and also, given a small amount of chance, right most of the time.
I wonder how you will receive my moral idea? Can you see that imagining you are right, but not insisting, is the best pose to take, when it comes to morality?