Saturday 2 June 2018

Wherein Lies the Interest in an Individual Person? - The Battle Lines are Drawn

You can believe a person consists solely of the accidents of birth that they inherited due to race, geography, gender, biology, sexuality etc and that that is their main and even only interest or you can believe that that interest resides in how the unique moral being inside these inheritances (and which has nothing to do with them) responds to them and to the world in general. This is the battle that is being fought - whether a human is a free moral agent who can rise above the determined and accidental contingencies that make him or her. Our culture used to believe we could and that this is where our dignity and potential nobility also reside. We are playing with throwing all of that away.

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