Jessica Tizzard
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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And then it's up to me to sort of apply my judgment and think about whether that thing should be done.
Right.
So, yeah, as you said, it's very much like sort of within the economy of reasons.
Yeah.
Right, yeah, I think that's a good question and it helps sort of bring us down to earth because we've been talking about some pretty highly theoretical ways of thinking about weakness.
And yeah, the prescriptive element is going to be really different depending on how you want to think about it.
So if you're the rationalist, it's really just a matter of introspecting and trying to sort of clear away the clouds of self-deception and figuring out what my principles really, really are.
And this is actually something that Kant thinks is very difficult, if not impossible, to do.
And I think he would worry and a lot of us would worry that there's just too much navel-gazing going on there and it's not going to help me be a better person.
And then on the other hand, yeah, the extreme view, I mean, you've accepted that there's no connection between my reasons and my desires, right?
So I can gain however much moral knowledge I want.
You know, I can really think about things and
But it's never going to make a difference.
If I just have that strong desire, I'll have that strong desire.
And so managing that desire is going to it's not going to be a moral enterprise.
It's not going to have anything to do with with education, with reflection.
And so I don't really I don't know that there is a real prescription for how to live one's life to come out of that view.
On my view.
There is work to be done, but it needs to be mainly outward looking.
It needs to be me trying to size up the situation earnestly and thinking about maybe past experiences, thinking about, you know, what kind of weaknesses am I generally susceptible to?
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