A part of life is making decisions, when we are younger decisions are made for us, but as we grow we must start making some for ourselves, and that includes failing and making mistakes along the way. “An act is right or wrong according to its consequences; it has no moral value apart…
The chapter begins to state that us humans are bounded by guilt. Guilt robs us of certain satisfactions. Viorst says that we develop a superego around age five and by then we only want want we want. To solve this we develop a conscience that limits and restrains us. Our parents are the symbols for our conscience in our minds. Socially our conscience is modified for what we value and what we forbid. Our conscience is based on emotions and it evolves over time. Our conscience address concerns, feelings, and conflicts. Our conscience is also the our moral restraints, ideals, and our inner submission to human law. If we breach with those moral restraints and leave those ideals behind then we will observe, reproach, and condemn. Guilt can be illogical and can cause a person to lose the ability to discriminate between bad deeds and bad thoughts.…
Critical philosophers of the nineteenth century were less sure that general moral qualities could be maintained. For Marx morality and morals were a piece of middle class philosophy: sets of thoughts that overlooked the exploitative monetary courses of action of society and added to False Consciousness. Nietzsche took a gander at the starting points of morality, and like Marx, saw moral frameworks as emerging from the hobbies of social gatherings. For Nietzsche the individual needed to go past acknowledged morality to make another morality for him. In the twentieth century, there has been developing negativity about the likelihood of a widespread moral framework. Jean-Paul Sartre accentuated the subjective judgments that an individual must make so as to be genuine.…
Wise person once started " All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil.The only crime is pride. " This lens means that "All men make mistakes but a good man admits his mistakes and has to overcome his pride."…
Nietzsche dismissing punishment as the origin of bad conscience is based on the ideals of a society transitioning from a simplistic, nomadic and barbaric way of life, to a more serene one, with beliefs of settlements and communities. Herein lies the problem Nietzsche discovers, the basic instincts of man, surrounded by the walls of a new society, rendering all the unconscious thoughts that served as a need for survival, useless. This new society would require men to think instead of using instincts; the structure of society would demand this reliance of our conscious mind.…
2. Moral concepts can’t be formed by abstraction from any empirical knowledge or, therefore, from anything contingent.…
Religious cruelty is the harassment of one religion to another. It involves the different views of all kind of beliefs as how they are beaten down by each other. In Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche the discussion God being seen as a different figure to all religions is brought up. In my response, I will analysis the passages 55, 66, 67, 129, and 183. Passage 55 states, “There is a great ladder of religious cruelty with many rungs; but three of them are the most important. At one time one sacrificed human beings to one's god, perhaps precisely those human beings one loved best….” (Nietzsche 55). When this statement is made, he is explaining that the ladder of God is questioned of which direction it is going in. When we look at faith…
In his second essay of the Geneaology of Morals, Nietzsche attempts to identify and explain the origin of the conscience. He does not adopt the view of the conscience that is accepted by the “English Psychologists”, such as Bentham, J. Mill, J.S. Mill and Hume, as the result of an innate moral feeling. Rather, it is his belief that the moral content of our conscience is formed during childhood under the influence of society. Nietzsche defines the conscience as an introspective phenomenon brought about by a feeling of responsibility, in which one analyzes their own morality due to the internalization of the values of society. This definition holds the position that the conscience is not something innate to humans, rather it has arisen through evolution. In light of this, this paper will give insight into how Nietzsche reaches this conclusion, as well as what results from it. In order to do this there will be discussion of guilt, punishment, the will to power and implications from society.…
When determining the status of morality there is three different options. Morality may be the different between objectives, relativistic, or it may be a complex set of rules. Moral nihilists are like relativists by denying ethical objectivism however, relativists believe in moral goodness, duty and virtue and nihilists don’t. Error theorists and expressivism are both forms of moral nihilism. Error theorists believe “our moral judgments are always mistaken”. Expressivists don’t agree and also deny that our moral claims can ever offer an accurate take on reality. (307)…
Harman, Gilbert. 1999. "Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attribution Error." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99, no. Article Type: research-article / Full publication date: 1999 / Copyright © 1999 The Aristotelian Society : 315-31.…
"Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do " (Gardner, 1999 ch1, p1-3)…
Cited: Annas, Julia. "Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing." Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (2004): 61-75.…
‘Memory – like liberty – is a fragile thing’ – Elizabeth Loftus. What does this statement suggest about memory as a way of knowing in the pursuit of ethical knowledge?…
I can really identify with the meaning of this quote. To be judged by others for what we have done in our past can be positive or negative. We judge ourselves by what we have accomplished in life or by what we feel capable of accomplishing. This can motivate us to try harder or to not try at all. We learn from our past what to expect from ourselves and what others can expect from us. When our past is filled with repeated attempts to achieve success that end up in failure we find ourselves unsure or unaware of our capabilities and consequently may cause others to make false assumptions and unfairly judge us.…
In this world even the best people make mistakes, but they reflect to themselves to see their mistakes and to fix it. If there are two people to compare: one who is examining his life and one who don’t care to examine his life. The one who doesn’t examine his life will commit sin repeatedly while the other will achieve a fulfillment. A small act of examining our actions will make a huge difference to our lives. And by examining our life we can learn from errors that we make.…