Moral luck | Neiladri Sinhababu | TEDxNTU
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- A talk on moral luck that will examine when blame and virtue can be assigned to human actions through a number of examples. Neil Sinhababu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His research is mainly on ethics. His paper on romantic relationships with people from other universes, "Possible Girls", was featured in the Washington Post on Valentine's Day.
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Very nice, clear talk, and a great introduction to the problem of moral luck.
Didn't incline me toward consequentialism, though. Here's why. It does not make sense to say of the Hitler-eating cannibal that he performed a morally right action. Rather, we should say that he performed an evil action, that happened to have felicitous consequences. Similarly, your friend who flew off to help the earthquake survivors did not do anything morally wrong. To the contrary, he did what was right, notwithstanding the tragic consequences.
I don't believe that there are good and bad people. We characterized some people through history as good and bad, but until person dies there is a change to make him good. We are not static, some of us search for itself, someone spends life occupied with worldly things, but until we die, we shouldn't be categorized. That is one of the reasons why I stand for actions based intentions. Personally, I think that the only way to help a person is to understand him/her, and the way to accomplish that is to understand their actions actions, to see what are the intentions. My orientation may be wrong, but it gives more humane appearance to humans. Peace be upon you :D
Neil rocks. A brilliant moral philosopher.
Religious folks have it good. As long as their intentions are good they get points from God. Outcome ain’t their department. Must be nice.
Good action and morally good (right) action is not the same. Morally good action is action with morally good intentions while good action is actions with objectively good consequences for the majority of people. Good action can be done with evil intentions but its not morally good. Also action can be both good and morally good. For example If one ate Hitler as only way to prevent WW2 then that action would be morally and objectively good while if one ate him for the sake of satisfying hunger then it would be morally bad while objectively good action. The intention is what gives some action moral characterization.
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