Notes on: Mary Anne Warren, “Difficulties with the Strong Animal Rights Position”
Category: Moral Sentiment
The moral party: whom should we invite?
Moral sentiment
Reactions to Robert C. Solomon’s views on sentimentality
When something just doesn’t feel right…
Henid or sneaky suspicion or “practical adaptiveness”
Henids and the doxic life
Cognitive emotions and Weininger’s henids
To hurt with love…
Notes on Jean Hampton’s moral educationist theory of punishment
The springs of action
Principles of actions indeed there are lodged in men’s appetites; but these are so far from being innate moral principles, that if they were left to their full swing they would carry men to the overturning of all morality. [Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Chapter II, “No Innate Principles,” par. 13.]
Unlike in […]
Bad, bad thing…
Revulsion is not an argument; and some of yesterday’s repugnances are today calmly accepted—though, one must add, not always for the better. In crucial cases, however, repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power fully to articulate it. Can anyone really give an argument fully adequate to the horror which is father-daughter […]
