The Worth of Persons: The Foundation of Ethics Franklin James
The Worth of Persons: The Foundation of Ethics Franklin James The death of a person is a tragedy while the explosion of a lifeless galaxy is a mere firework. This is the worth that the Australian…
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The Worth of Persons: The Foundation of Ethics Franklin James
The death of a person is a tragedy while the explosion of a lifeless galaxy is a mere firework. This is the worth that the Australian philosopher James Franklin proposes as the foundation of ethics. The moral difference is grounded in the nature of humans: humans have intrinsic worth, a worth that makes their fate really matter.
Human moral worth arises from certain properties that distinguish humans from the rest of creation (though some animals share a lesser degree of those properties): rationality, consciousness, the ability to act for reasons, emotional structure and love, individuality. In The Worth of Persons he explains that ethics in the usual sense of right and wrong actions, rights and virtues, and how to live a good life, is founded on something more basic that is not itself about actions, namely the worth of persons. This complex package makes humans the piece of
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