PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Survive This, Glaucon, Tic-Tac-Toe
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Monday, september 17 morality as a necessary evil. All morality is, is manipulation by those who are smart enough to do it. Morality like medicine you don t like to take it, but take it when you have to. Conforming to morality is a way of getting along with people, and gain. Morality not something we prize for ourselves, but prize it as a device shown by ring of gyges story - glaucon. We have to buy into it b/c unless we go along w/other people we will be in danger. Fear is greater in most situations than our desire to accumulate things. For hobbs when you buy into the contract of morality, there is no buy-out. Nothing that allows for the rational opt-out in hobbs view. Plato s response via socrates that glaucon s conception of what human motivation is, is over-simplified and stupid; accuses glaucon of thinking of humans as machines for getting what they want.
