As the tacit civil war simmers in the US Republicans v Democrats, left v right,
diversity v populism this bitterness is evident in Europe too and growing
Each side in the argument claim to be right
but how can one be impartial
How socially close or distant we are to other people can influence our
ability to be impartial in our moral judgements of them.
What, then,
is the best placement for a moral judge?
Should we strive to distance
ourselves equally from everybody, or is there virtue in closeness?
Is
there even such a thing as an ideal placement, point of view to observe judge conclude or do we accept imperfection in our assessments
Certainly from the left I would argue against the temptation to specify an ideal
placement for a moral judgement
For the positon of the theoretically
idealjudge is practically unattainable and therefore ethically suspect.
Rather
than specifying an ideal position from which justified
moral judgements can be made, we should embrace the fact that actual moral
judges are always situated and thus only in possession of an incomplete
impartiality, substituting openness and mutual critique for hegemonic
theoretical justification.
source: https://www.academia.edu/30856692/Partial_Impartiality
source: https://www.academia.edu/30856692/Partial_Impartiality
No comments:
Post a Comment