Sublime

How can we make sense of these gradations of moral responsibility when brains and their background influences are in every case, and to exactly the same degree, the real cause of a woman’s death?

GENIUS AND VIRTUE.

Judaism’s “possibilism” about human nature, its conviction that we can choose the good even if we often don’t.

Il avança que pour devenir des lois, les règles morales devaient être universellement applicables. Si le sérieux des hommes était différent de celui des femmes; ou celui des Italiens différent de celui des Égyptiens, nous ne pourrions pas en parler comme d’une loi.

One school of interpretation finds Aristotle firmly advocating an inclusive account of happiness in 1.7, such that the best life will include the best combination of those goods we desire for themselves. Only thus can it ‘not be made more desirable by the addition’ of other goods. But, if Aristotle favoured such an inclusive account in Book I, this

Rawls’s case for the priority of the right over the good reflects the conviction that a “moral person is a subject with ends he has chosen.”30 As moral agents, we are defined not by our ends but by our capacity for choice. “It is not our aims that primarily reveal our nature” but rather the framework of rights we would choose if we could abstract