PHL277Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: James Rachels, Ressentiment, Relativism
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James rachels argues both that cultural relativism is false and that there are proofs in ethics. Self conception that you will be taught, learn under the government is you owe a debt to society: jews oppressed by romans who had a master morality, jews had ressentiment, inverted value table. Hypothesis of writing 2nd treatise is to answer that question. Bad for us, turning natural impulses against us, natural illness] As(cid:272)eti(cid:272) ideal is (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e do i(cid:374) order to tell our self that our suffering has meaning. he thinks under master morality, it does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, its o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou pu(cid:374)ish (cid:455)ourself that the sufferi(cid:374)g starts to. N thinks there are lots of ways you can construct a picture for yourself according to what matters, is true, something else opposed to yourself in your own nature. One way is to become disinterested attached to the true. You do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374)g od i(cid:374) order to (cid:272)o(cid:373)e up (cid:449)ith the truth.
