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Freedom, Reason and Impartiality

This document discusses the concepts of freedom, free will, and moral judgment. It argues that true freedom is not doing whatever you want, but doing what you ought to do. Moral judgments must be backed by good reasons and consider each person's interests impartially, without bias. At a minimum, morality involves making decisions using reason and giving equal consideration to all individuals affected by the decision.

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Freedom, Reason and Impartiality

This document discusses the concepts of freedom, free will, and moral judgment. It argues that true freedom is not doing whatever you want, but doing what you ought to do. Moral judgments must be backed by good reasons and consider each person's interests impartially, without bias. At a minimum, morality involves making decisions using reason and giving equal consideration to all individuals affected by the decision.

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Freedom as foundation of moral acts

freedom is not doing what ever


you want to do

but doing what you ought to do


• Without personal freedom, any choice of action must be between
options laid down by another, instructing which option to select for
which scenario.
• Following instructions 'religiously' involves no moral decision since it
involves no decision at all.
True freedom is not doing whatever you want but doing what you ought.
What is at the very heart of the human person’s exalted place in creation?
It is the freedom to make moral choices, or “free will.”

What is a common misunderstanding of free will?


The idea that free will is “the freedom to do whatever one wants” is
erroneous.

What is the authentic meaning of free will?


It is “freedom to do what one ought.”
Reason and Impartiality
 Moral judgments must be backed by good reasons.
 Morality requires the impartial consideration of each individual’s
interests.
moral judgement are backed up by ...
• reason
• we cannot just relly on our feelings, no matter how
powerful they might be
• our feelings may be irrational and may be nothing
but products of selfishness, prejudices and cultural
conditioning
• our decisions must be guided by reason
• the morally right thing to do is always the thing best
supported by arguments
How can we tell if an argument is really good?

Get the facts straight.


Bring moral principles into play. Are
they justified, and are they being
correctly applied?
moral judgement are backed up by ..
•impartiality-fairness
•without being influenced by the sort of
contaminating biases and prejudices
•not influenced by another party
•exclusively being influenced by the
considerations and resisting solicitation of
any motives different from those which need
to be considered.
The Requirement of Impartiality
 Each individual’s interests are equally
important, and no one should get special
treatment.
 If there is no good reason for treating
people differently, then discrimination is
unacceptably arbitrary.
The Minimum Conception of Morality

 Morality is, at the very least, the effort to


guide one’s conduct by reason—that is, to
do what there are the best reasons for
doing—while giving equal weight to the
interests of each individual affected by one’s
decision.

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