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Plato - Republic, Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, BUT most…
Plato - Republic
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Anecdotes: 1) School environment, the teacher rewarded students for helping each other rather than competing. 2) Media (movie) repeatedly portry aggressie behavior as admirable normalize behaviors
Quote: “If they are to be brave, must we not extend our prescription to include also the sayings that will make them least likely to fear death?” 386a-b
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While plato emphasized moral education and institutional role, Didion took a step back and warned us of the danger from assumptions, assumptions that we already know what morality requires
Didion - On Morality
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themes: morality vs. political/self righteousness. CENTRAL Q: Role of insttution create morality? OR do individuals need to exercise judgement themselves [Example] Personal loyalties matter, abstract moral claims can disguise personal interests.
Anecdotes... 1) Judging someone too quickly eg) acting rude in public = bad person, later discovered they were dealing with a difficult situation. --> Skepticism about quick moral judgements 2) Arguments w/ friend and be tempted to assume you believe you are on the right side, the other person must be immoral. Feeling morally certain NOT equal to actually.
Anecdote: Imagine someone desperately wanting a promotion. Instead of admitting, “I want this because it gives me more money and status,” they convince themselves that they deserve it and that anyone competing with them is doing something wrong. Didion's point is that we can turn our personal desires into supposedly objective moral principles.
Quote: “when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking ... that it is a moral imperative that we have it” p163 final paragraph
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business decision, shaped by institution, contribute to broader distribution of inequality and income, and power
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