Jessica Tizzard
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286 appearances
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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I'm not just thinking about the fact that there's a real moral end in going to spend time with other people.
I might really just be motivated to sort of
ignore my problems by going out and distracting myself and drinking too much or something like that.
So I think it's sort of knowing yourself and knowing what tempts you and being able to differentiate between sort of genuine questions about what's the right thing to do and sort of rationalizations where I'm really just masquerading something as the right thing to do while I'm sort of
just trying to do something self-interested, something that's only thinking about satisfying various desires.
I think this is the kind of experience that Kant thinks it takes to sort of cultivate good judgment and stand a chance at avoiding weakness.
Right, yeah.
I think that is a thing to worry about and a thing that cultivating judgment and experience helps me avoid.
I like the way you put it in terms of the outside perspective.
Someone else's perspective would see that you're just sort of manufacturing reasons where there are none, good reasons to act, reasons that aren't just about me being able to satisfy various desires that I have that don't hold up to objective or moral scrutiny.
I think that is the right way to think about what's going on in cases like this.
But I think one thing that's important is, and so far as we're talking about weakness, the weak person is someone who, on Kant's view, right, so he identifies three different sort of levels of moral failure, and weakness is the least severe.
And for him, the weak person is someone who genuinely is trying to do the right thing.
And they do have a sort of good general framework for what it means to act well.
What kinds of things should I be aiming for in living a moral life?
And so
I think that rationalizing is possible for such a person, for sure.
Like I said, Kant has a broad expansion of weakness.
It's not just the case where I know I'm doing the wrong thing and so I can't rationalize.
I think it could also include cases like this.
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