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- As I think you claim that morality is a kind of idea that we observe and simply “see” that we should uphold the idea’s purpose. I agree with the fact that morality is objective and not subjective, but from what I “see” in my mind, it is a kind of what you are told about do unto your friends more broadly. I don’t want something done to me that will hurt me, so I don’t do it to others. And in the context of the categorical imperative, I don’t want to do something that if everyone does it then my situation will be bleak, that is, if there is legitimacy to do something then people will do it and then it can eventually reach me, anyway I don’t give it legitimacy and I think it is bad. That is, I am not looking at any idea, I am simply making a “calculation”. I would be happy to understand if there is a flaw in what I said.
- I would be happy if you could refer me to your column on the subject of Adam and Eve and “sin” (if there is one). I know you don’t really deal with it. But it’s not clear to me what knowledge was added to them, if it seems that before they already had the power to distinguish between good and evil and to choose, otherwise they would not have been commanded about the prohibition.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your articles, books, and videos that satisfy the mind’s thirst for logic and truth. I also thank you for your response to the questions and apologize for the inconvenience.
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1. There is a confusion here between levels of discussion. The question of what is defined as a moral act could perhaps be the result of calculation. But the question of why there is an obligation to act in this way, why the moral command has validity, is a different question. This requires moral realism and God at its foundation. I believe I detailed this distinction in column 457 and in the fourth conversation, part 3, in the first premiss (resolving a contradiction in Kant).
2. You mean what Maimonides says in Mora Chapter 2. He is not talking about moral good and evil, but about manners and social norms. Moral good and evil are informed and not famous. I wrote a column about that (Search for Famous and Informed).
Chen Chen.
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