Francie Russell
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first heard Mar 2015
last heard Dec 2015
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Elucidations · Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative · 9 Dec 2015
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How much should the judgments of my fellow citizens inform my own in fact?
Yeah, that's helpful and that really seems to place Kant's moral philosophy in the context of his Enlightenment thought, where he thought that part of what human life is about is coming to a kind of agreement about how we want to live, not based on being governed by anybody else, not based on following some sort of leader's rules, but on really reflecting together about how we want best to live.
And I'm Francie Russell.
So you spoke about how Adam Smith wants to ground morality in human nature, but part of what humans do is learn how to be the natural beings we are with
So I wondered if you could speak a little bit about how he saw us as developing or learning how to be moral.
So maybe we can get an example on the table.
How should we think about children interacting with each other as peers such that they come to a new moral understanding of themselves and others?
The way that you're talking, you've emphasized the impartiality of it, but it definitely doesn't seem anything like a removed or inhuman perspective.
It seems like part of what the impartial spectator should bring out is something like the best human response to the situation.
So there's something really attractive about this idea that we can think about morality and give natural human emotions away.
constructive moral role.
But there's also something very attractive about the idea of moral principles.
And I think we do make use of this idea in our sort of ordinary moral lives.
So does Smith think that there's no role for moral rules and principles?
Or how does he see this?
The way that you just spoke about how we would come to justified moral positions from within the societies we were raised in and how we would come to make sort of truth claims about moral knowledge seemed to rely on something like a fundamental principle of equality that
And it could sound like we don't develop that naturally.
That's just Smith relying on a fundamental principle and who knows where he got that from.
So how do you understand the way that Smith uses this principle of equality in his moral philosophy?
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