Comments on: madeleine albright thinks I'm going to hell http://thisfieldisrequired.com/2009/10/29/madeleine-albright-thinks-im-going-to-hell/ ethics, education, etc. Wed, 09 May 2012 17:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: thisfieldisrequired http://thisfieldisrequired.com/2009/10/29/madeleine-albright-thinks-im-going-to-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-76 thisfieldisrequired Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:47:01 +0000 http://thisfieldisrequired.com/?p=184#comment-76 Yes, I too suspect that such a remark would not hold up to reflective equilibrium. Even so, mindsets like this probably do some damage even just floating around casually, unfortunately. Yes, I too suspect that such a remark would not hold up to reflective equilibrium. Even so, mindsets like this probably do some damage even just floating around casually, unfortunately.

]]> By: Peter Twieg http://thisfieldisrequired.com/2009/10/29/madeleine-albright-thinks-im-going-to-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Peter Twieg Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:57:48 +0000 http://thisfieldisrequired.com/?p=184#comment-75 I also think that the perverse implication of these kinds of duties grounded in shared consciousness of interest is that it's relatively okay, I guess, for men to not help women, or perhaps even to go out of their way to act in the interests of the reproduction of patriarchy. There's a reason why most respected moral theories are agent-neutral... Of course, I think this is a kind of off-the-cuff remark which betrays a certain mindset but wouldn't hold up to reflective equilibrium in the minds of those who might instinctively endorse it. I also think that the perverse implication of these kinds of duties grounded in shared consciousness of interest is that it’s relatively okay, I guess, for men to not help women, or perhaps even to go out of their way to act in the interests of the reproduction of patriarchy. There’s a reason why most respected moral theories are agent-neutral…

Of course, I think this is a kind of off-the-cuff remark which betrays a certain mindset but wouldn’t hold up to reflective equilibrium in the minds of those who might instinctively endorse it.

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