{"id":6118,"date":"2021-03-03T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2021-03-03T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:59:45","slug":"blog-post-3-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/03\/blog-post-3-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 3\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought this reading was really interesting. At first, I was a little confused about where it was going as I have never fully stopped to think about morally in the form of arguments. I have always let my own morals guide me and that has not really failed me yet. However, when you look deeper, there is clearly a lot more there. I thought that argument forms for moral actions were really fascinating because I could understand them. It feels like a natural progression from our readings in Warren and about logic. However, I do think it is easier to wrap my brain around. While all the forms varied slightly, the main concept of \u201cshould you do or not do this action and why\u201d remained. I think this will make it a lot simpler going forward when it comes to mapping and breaking down these arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moral arguments are basically trying to prove why you should act a certain way based on one’s morals, but there is an issue when everyone\u2019s morals are different. I thought the section differentiating between universalism and egoism (pg 156-57) was extremely important. Not everyone bases their morals the same way and will act differently according to that. Some find it advantageous to only act in their own self-interest, while others believe that it is moral to act if it will maximize happiness for all. I think that while the latter is an amazing goal, it is very unlikely. In this day and age, there are very few things you can actually improve the lives of all. This is why I think it is important to not focus on helping everyone, but helping the most you can. What frustrates me the most about this is that there seems to be a pattern of people we put in power (aka like the whole government) being egoists. A lot of their policymaking is based on whether or not they think they would get reelected or what they have a financial interest in. I think it is really sad that we (or at least I) cannot trust the people who are supposed to protect us to always do so. Either way, I hope that one day I could be in a position where I get to work on completing actions that have the most net happiness!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought this reading was really interesting. At first, I was a little confused about where it was going as I have never fully stopped to think about morally in the form of arguments. I have always let my own morals guide me and that has not really failed me yet. However, when you look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}