Fitting Moral Admiration: Achievements and Character

IF 0.7 2区 哲学 Q4 ETHICS
Kyle Fruh
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I develop three arguments in support of my contention that we should favor achievements over agents as objects of fitting moral admiration. The first argument impugns the epistemic standing with which characterological admiration is standardly issued. The second argument alleges that there is likely to be a difference between widely held folk concepts of character and traits, on the one hand, and an empirically supported view of the reality of those things, on the other. The final argument concerns one way in which characterological admiration renders some aspects of our practices of admiring subject to undesirable revision. In each case I use an analogy to athletic admiration to show how achievement admiration avoids the problems of characterological admiration. I then suggest an alternative role for characterological considerations in fitting admiration, as a loose constraint on what is appropriate to admire rather than as an object of admiration. The upshot of the article is theoretical, inasmuch as it develops a tension between the conditions governing fitting admiration and an empirically informed view of character. But there is also practical upshot, especially in the context of public practices of admiring, as when we build statues of heroes or name buildings after them.

恰当的道德赞美:成就与品格
我提出了三个论点来支持我的论点,即我们应该更青睐成就,而不是行为者,作为合适的道德钦佩对象。第一个论点质疑了认识论的立场,而认识论的立场是标准发布的特征钦佩。第二种观点认为,一方面,人们普遍持有的性格和性格特征的概念与另一方面,由经验支持的关于这些事物的现实观点之间可能存在差异。最后一个论点涉及到一种方式,即性格上的钦佩使我们的钦佩实践的某些方面受到不受欢迎的修改。在每一种情况下,我都用对运动员的钦佩来类比,以说明对成就的钦佩如何避免了对性格的钦佩的问题。然后,我建议在适当的赞美中考虑性格因素的另一种作用,作为对什么是合适的赞美的宽松约束,而不是作为赞美的对象。这篇文章的结论是理论性的,因为它在恰当的钦佩和经验丰富的性格观点之间形成了一种紧张关系。但也有实际的结果,特别是在公众崇拜的背景下,当我们为英雄建造雕像或以他们的名字命名建筑物时。
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