Maybe we then would take this broader point of view
that ethics takes, the universal point of view, if you'd like.
So we'd give as much consideration to the interests of others, as we give to our
own, or as much consideration to the interest
of strangers, as we give to our own children.
Now, I'm not saying that that's even possible
really in that pure way for human beings, and
I'm not saying that it would be good for us to strive to be quite so impartial.
Although I'll come to that at the end of the lecture when
we come to the, talk about Moral science, and whether ethics requires
us to be moral science but nevertheless, it could give us an
idea of what we would do if we were more fully rational.
And it could perhaps give us some grounds for saying, in so far as we are
more rational we free our selves from that
partial evolutionary background, and we act more ethical.
So we might think of acting more ethically in that way, as something that is required
by reason but still perhaps that's, even if
you think that's right, it's, it's rather theoretical, it's
how get to grips with our motivations and
could say, well, what's the relevance of what
I would do if I were more fully rational to what's rational for me to do now?
There are a lot of further questions that you can ask.
So I am, I am just throwing that, that as a suggestion at this stage, a
possible way of answering this question from this
perspective of trying to say why is ethics rational.
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