Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I agree that we “absorb” stuff in adulthood as well and that such “noise” is largely irrelevant to character. Making this relevant to character — or worse, centrally relevant — does seem to be an aspect of woke-cultu…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. See also: https://praxeology.net/character-dispo.pdf LikeLike

In reply to Roderick Long. See e.g. here: https://praxeology.net/Temptation-and-Easy-Virtue-pdf.pdf LikeLike

It’s been a while since I read Hursthouse, but does she say that we can be *blamed* for thoughts outside our control? The position I find plausible (though whether it’s hers or not I don’t recall) is that thoughts outside our control …

In reply to mlyoung57. I’ll have to go back and re-read Hursthouse, but I don’t think that her account allows her to affirm (a), i.e., an escape clause for fleeting thoughts. If memory serves, fleeting thoughts are for her evidence of racis…

Interesting, good point. One flavor of response might go like this: (a) fleeting thoughts, like at least one-off dreams, do not express or reflect character and so are irrelevant to virtue and vice, (b) the determination question is one of what determi…