Rainbow Cupcakes!!
From the Blog the-emo-wolverine-writesThe title of this post has absolutely nothing to do with the post in question, I'm telling you beforehand. I should be studying, but I don't feel like it D: I tried getting into the mood of studying by drawing up a timetable of sorts, but when I was done, I ended up imagining what I wanted to do in the summer as soon as the exams were over instead! D: ~I didn't put maths into this timetable because I just do maths everyday~ My summer list is expanding literally every day but I haven't exactly written down any solid thoughts or plans (which I have to soon before all these wonderful ideas are lost). Summer has an odd knack of turning your brain to mush and your creativity level goes sooo down that you end up spending a couple of weeks going like "Man I'm bored!" so I really don't pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Moral Emotions and Moral Reasoning
From the Blog awaisaftabMorality, it appears to me, springs fundamentally from emotions - *moral emotions*, such as compassion, sympathy, empathy etc - and not from reason, although reason definitely plays an vital role in its development. Much of philosophical discussion of morality, on the other hand, seems to be centered on the *rational agent*. We ponder and ponder over how a rational agent ought to behave in so and so circumstances, but is a rational agent equivalent to a moral agent? I suspect the hope of reducing morality down to reason is doomed to failure. What is left of morality if you take out compassion and empathy out of it? Individuals in a population of rational agents driven only by individual self-interest may act in ways that appear to be moral, but I am inclined to think that such bepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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