Wednesday, March 09, 2005

So, I'm Reading This Book...

I borrowed an Introduction to Moral Philosophy textbook from Andrew and started reading it last weekend. At first I felt my eyes start to glaze over but then I would think, "Andrew knows this stuff and I don't" and I would become alert again. Competitiveness can be such a useful tool at times.


Now that I'm firmly in the first chapter and starting to get a hang of the terms, I find myself enjoying it a little bit. Its definitely a book you have to think about while you read. The most interesting part so far was the section on Moral Disagreements where an author proposed that disagreements or moral positions could not be resolved because we had no measuring stick of comparing end results of the positions. (I apologize in advance for mangling the concepts. This stuff is very foreign to my existence and experience.)


I gave me a new insight into why our politics often seems so hopeless at finding consensus, or rather it put into words what I subconsciously suspected: people disagree because they live in different worlds (morally relatively speaking).


Anyway, its all far more in depth and intense than what I was expecting, but at least I'm learning something.

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