Harari writes that Humanistic Ethics consists of the principle: if it feels good — do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contrast this with the following passage from C. D. Broad:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Factors on which the Rightness or Wrongness of an Action Depends. <\/em>On my view the Net Value <\/em>of an act depends jointly on three different factors. These are<\/p>\n\n\n\n (i) its Intrinsic Value <\/em>or Disvalue<\/em>. i.e. the value or disvalue which it has in virtue of its own intrinsic qualities, as distinct from its relations to other things and from its effects;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (ii) its Immediate Fitt<\/em>ingness or Unfittingness <\/em>to the situation in which it is performed; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n (iii) its Utility <\/em>or Disutility<\/em>, i.e. its tendency to produce good or bad consequences.” (C. D. Broad, \u201cWar Thoughts in Peace Time,\u201dReligion, Philosophy and Psychical Research (1953). pp. 249.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harari\u2019s<\/em> principle is factor (i) in Broad\u2019s list. It thus ignores (ii) such as the keeping of a promise despite how one feels about keeping it. And it ignores (iii) such as getting into a homosexual relation in Iran where the punishment is death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harari writes that Humanistic Ethics consists of the principle: if it feels good — do it. Contrast this with the following passage from C. D. Broad: \u201cThe Factors on which the Rightness or Wrongness of an Action Depends. On my view the Net Value of an act depends jointly on three different factors. These are … Continue reading “The Naive Views of Yuval Harari in Home Deus \u2013 Third Criticism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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