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Ethics Reading Group
June 5, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The third meeting of the SU22 ethics reading party will occur at 5:30pm this Sunday June 5th. This week the group will again meet in front of the Library for a potluck; Zoom is also possible to accommodate people tuning in from afar.
Tentatively, organizer Yahui Chen will lead the reading party through a discussion of Peter Railton’s (1984) paper, ‘Alienation, consequentialism, and the demands of morality‘, which was published in 1984 in the journal PAPA. Here is an abstract:
Living up to the demands of morality may bring with it alienation-from one’s personal commitments, from one’s feelings or sentiments, from other people, or even from morality itself. In this article I will discuss several apparent instances of such alienation, and attempt a preliminary assessment of their bearing on questions about the acceptability of certain moral theories. Of special concern will be the question whether problems about alienation show consequentialist moral theories to be self-defeating.
Volunteers are invited to lead the next discussion, which will be on John McDowell (1979) paper ‘Virtue and reason‘ on Sunday June 12th.