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wolven7Finishing the section on moral reasoning, today, i used A Clockwork Orange as the example for the conjunction of free will and ethical reasoning. Second-Order moral desires are when we desire to desire something. We want to want to be good, or we want to want to be bad, but we want to be bad, or we want to be good.
Think of it like this: you want to stay at home and watch TV, but you want to want to do your homework, or go to the gym. The want to want is a second-order desire. Alex, in A Clockwork Orange, wants to do bad things, but is only capable of doing good things. Read the book, it's really quite important, in regards to these ideas.
The point is, they got it. They looked at me and they understood it, and they raised the pertinent points and the valid objections. They got it.
I fucking love that feeling.
I've gotta be up at 7, to administer a test.
Night.
Think of it like this: you want to stay at home and watch TV, but you want to want to do your homework, or go to the gym. The want to want is a second-order desire. Alex, in A Clockwork Orange, wants to do bad things, but is only capable of doing good things. Read the book, it's really quite important, in regards to these ideas.
The point is, they got it. They looked at me and they understood it, and they raised the pertinent points and the valid objections. They got it.
I fucking love that feeling.
I've gotta be up at 7, to administer a test.
Night.
