PHIL-403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Categorical Imperative, Moral Agency, Ethical Subjectivism
25 Sep 2017
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If everyone has moments of leisure in their life, to have time to have public reason (ex. But this demands a different approach to living: provokes us to change. : unlike nietzsche he does not joke, but takes the matter unlightly. Will engage the ideas of famous figures such as plato, kant etc. Ie take matters of ethics personally, to take the self and ethical inquiry seriously. A journey of the self: the self must work on ethics and make commitment; another. Philosophy had previouslybeen a pursuit of moral imperatives/apriori values but emerson thinks we should look for moral guidance in lived experience ie moral subjectivity. Not an abandonment of morality but interpreted by some as a do as you please approach The second difficulty of emerson is stylistic his essaysare not traditional treatsises, but morelecture like: lectures in the sense of admonishment or scolding of the self.
