John Haldane: The fourth belief is that to persuade those with - TopicsExpress



          

John Haldane: The fourth belief is that to persuade those with whom one is in wholesale disagreement about the nature and content of morality it is not enough simply to state one’s position, or even to argue rationally for it; one has also to expose the confusions and contradictions involved in the thought of the other side. This involves both immanent critique: demonstrating the inadequacy of their concepts even in their own terms and for their chosen purposes; and calling ethical thinkers to account where they are disengaged from the realities of moral life. Demonstrating confusion, contradiction and bad faith is only likely to be properly effective, however, if it is done in a spirit of charity and not intellectual combat: done for the other out of a belief in their underlying human desire to be and to do good.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:42:20 +0000

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