Moral Categories: The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the ???-ideas developed by Selim Berker, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. @PhiloofAlexandria
Thank you for your lectures! What makes obligations non-gradable? In the commands example, isn't the only reason to follow one's command over the other's when in conflict because one commond is more obligatory than the other?
So, qualitatively, "morally good" differs from "morally OK" and "morally impermissible". Disobeying a duty is morally impermissible, while obeying a duty is not morally impermissible. It is not morally good to obey a duty. It is neither morally virtuous nor morally impermissible to obey the captain's command over the major's, nor the major's command over the captain's. Why is it not true that if it is morally more virtuous to obey the captain's command over the major's (or the other way around), then obligation is gradable?
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Thank you for your lectures! What makes obligations non-gradable? In the commands example, isn't the only reason to follow one's command over the other's when in conflict because one commond is more obligatory than the other?
So, qualitatively, "morally good" differs from "morally OK" and "morally impermissible". Disobeying a duty is morally impermissible, while obeying a duty is not morally impermissible. It is not morally good to obey a duty. It is neither morally virtuous nor morally impermissible to obey the captain's command over the major's, nor the major's command over the captain's. Why is it not true that if it is morally more virtuous to obey the captain's command over the major's (or the other way around), then obligation is gradable?
'Good' and 'Bad' seem like polar opposites. But 'Bad' and 'Fine' (or 'OK') seem like privative pairs.
About the requirement of "bad" things: what's your take on D.Z. Phillips "Evil&God"?