Jessica Tizzard
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286 appearances
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
Jessica Tizzard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then there's the second view, which says I'm just overcome by strong desire.
And I think that's probably, to a lot of people, the intuitive way to explain weakness.
But for someone who is going to emphasize, but not overemphasize, our capacity to reason and sort of the difference that it makes in our lives as moral creatures, I don't think there's room for thinking about weakness.
the interaction between reason and desire in that way.
So we don't want to deny that we do experience strong desires, but insofar as we're thinking about the moral relevance of those desires, it can't be that it just takes me over and determines me because then I sort of lose all autonomy.
It no longer seems to be a morally relevant action.
I'm just sort of carried off.
So we don't want to think about it that way insofar as we're thinking about the moral context of
The way Kahn thinks about it is what makes these desires strong and difficult for me to grapple with is not their sheer sort of psychological or mechanical force, but the way they figure in my particular moral rational framework, right?
They're difficult desires for me to reflect upon.
And I think we can understand there to be sort of things that are generally difficult for all humans to reflect upon because of our like sort of basic needs for self-preservation and to be loved and to be happy.
But then there can also be sort of specific desires that are difficult for me as an individual to reflect upon, you know, given other ends I have, given my personal history and things like that.
But in general, the idea is going to be against the strong desire view.
I do have strong desires, but to understand why I might act on them anyway, I have to think about my capacities for reflection and judgment, maybe in some cases my personal experience, in order to understand how they influence my life and how they lead me to sort of apply the moral principles that I'm trying to apply in shaping my life in a bad way.
Oh, yes.
I really like that way of thinking about it.
Yeah.
A desire, right?
It has a certain kind of efficacy or urgency.
It presents something as to be done.
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