Please comment. This Friday I’ll hold extra office hours 12-3 to discuss papers. I’m got extra ones first thing tomorrow morning, too. We have one more chapter of Doris due Monday.
Be picky with chapter 6!
Let us know what bothers you! I think Doris does a great job of inviting our own thought on these issues!
Krasnoff visit to class
Please read and provide a response below. (Draft emailed to you.)
Unclear in the LeBar
Make lists!
Johnson chapters five and six.
Kant on happiness? Is this any help? I’ll look for more passages.
* A person who has a constitution that is melancholic will have a predominating feeling for the sublime. That person may possess genuine virtue based on the principle that humanity has beauty and worth.
* One who has a sanguine nature will mostly have a feeling for the beautiful. This results in an “adoptive” virtue that rests on good-heartedness. This person’s compassion and sympathy depend on the impression of the moment.
* A choleric human will have a feeling for the splendid or showy sublime. As a result, this person will possess an apparent virtue. Kant calls it “a gloss of virtue.” This includes a sense of honor and concern for outward appearance.
* Phlegmatic people have apathy or lack of any finer feeling. They therefore may have an absence of virtue.
Let me know if you want his critique of virtue ethics on self-improvement. And let me know if you want to read the paper by Nina S. and Nichols on the idea that we associate persisting selves with persisting moral outlooks.
I wish you guy had bought the book back when it was priced at like 32 on amazon, now it’s more!
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