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Why Be virtuous/good/moral?

Why Be virtuous/good/moral?. Plato & hobbes overview - historical parallels - addressing the same Q • Plato ’ s thought experiment (the ring) • Hobbes ’ thought experiment (S of N) - nature & reason argument. Historical parallels. Plato (~428 bc - 348 bc) Hobbes (1588 - 1679).

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Why Be virtuous/good/moral?

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  1. Why Be virtuous/good/moral? • Plato & hobbes overview - historical parallels - addressing the same Q • Plato’s thought experiment (the ring) • Hobbes’ thought experiment (S of N) - nature & reason argument

  2. Historical parallels • Plato (~428 bc - 348 bc) • Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

  3. Why be good?

  4. Morality: a Compromisean arrangement

  5. Ring of Gyges

  6. Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

  7. Two Major Influences Galileo Euclidean Geometry

  8. Single Scientific Method Physical nature human human society Matter in motion Natural bodies (stones, planets, living organisms) Artificial bodies (societies, political bodies)

  9. Causal laws:e is determined by c Conclusion Every event in the universe is necessarily determined by one or more previous cause

  10. Scientific explanation of universe/human bodies • “For what is the heart, but a spring, and the nerves, but so many strings, and the joints, but so many wheels, giving a motion to the whole body…”

  11. Euclidean geometry • Axioms --> theorems • Basic truths of human nature --> deduce morality/leviathan

  12. G + EG + CW => Leviathan

  13. morality human reason human nature

  14. State of nature

  15. State of NatureEquality Equality “Nature hath made men so equal…” Right to anything necessary for survival

  16. State of nature • Bodies in motion • Driven by desire to survive

  17. State of NaturePsychology Fear Desire

  18. State of Nature • Limited Resources --> enmity

  19. State of NatureState of War Limited Resources --> enmity --> war “In such condition, there is no place for Industry…and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

  20. What does Reason then tell us? • We do anything necessary to preserve life This Hobbes calls “Right of Nature” natural right

  21. What does Reason then tell us? 2. Pursue Peace This Hobbes calls “Law of Nature” How to achieve Peace…?

  22. The Social Contract“covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all” I give up my right to do anything (so long as you do as well) and give that right over to one authority

  23. CommonwealthLeviathan The authority must reside in one person and be total and supreme.

  24. Problem?

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