SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY

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Autor(a) principal: BENZIMAN,YOTAM
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Manuscrito (Online)
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Resumo: Abstract The item was in the news. A public official said that he would hire a male rather than a female driver, because following the growing influence of the #MeToo movement, hiring a man would be safer. That way nobody would accuse him of harassment. The official’s declaration aroused justified public criticism. Being a public official, he must be committed to equality-in-hiring practices. But suppose that it were a private individual, who wanted to do his utmost to keep away from temptation. It might seem that there is nothing wrong with that: he is free to hire whomever he wishes, and his caution is justified: planning ahead and resisting temptation are marks of rationality and personhood, in Harry Frankfurt’s sense of the term. But why should one be so cautious to begin with? Challenging other philosophical analyses of temptation, I argue that temptations are hardly irresistible. We should all take responsibility for our actions and behavior. It is a moral duty to control ourselves and not let others pay the price for our shortcomings. This notion is both Kantian, as it emphasizes autonomy, and Aristotelian: it urges us to work on our virtues.
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title SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
spellingShingle SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
BENZIMAN,YOTAM
Ethics
Self-restraint
Temptation
title_short SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
title_full SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
title_fullStr SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
title_full_unstemmed SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
title_sort SELF-RESTRAINT AND MORALITY
author BENZIMAN,YOTAM
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ethics
Self-restraint
Temptation
topic Ethics
Self-restraint
Temptation
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