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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:05:07 EST
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- From: Remo Ostini <rxo868@CSCGPO.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: Morality
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- David,
-
- Before I get myself in too much trouble, I'd like to clear up what connection
- you would like my opinion on. Do you mean the connection between Freud and
- Hobbes? What do you mean by "this comparative notion". Sorry for being so
- obtuse but I just want to make sure I answer the right question.
-
- As for the relevance of any of what you talked about to the research I
- recently plugged, I'd have to say it is not closely related. Freud isn't
- any more popular in mainstream academic research into morality than he is in
- other areas of academia. Nor do classical philosophers get much of a look
- in. The prevailing paradigm in morality research over the past twenty years
- or so has been a cognitive developmental model based on some of Piaget's
- work and extended by such people as Kohlberg and Rest. I personally have
- lots of problems with this model and that is partly what will drive my PhD
- research. I should point out that the cognitive developmental model is not
- the only model used in morality research, but it certainly has been dominant
- until recent times.
-
- As for Hobbes, I have to admit that I am not as well versed in his Ideas as
- I ought to be (despite owning a copy of Leviathan). But for what it's worth,
- I find his idea of the state of human nature to be speculative and
- unsubstantiated (and probably unable to be substantiated or refuted). Nor do
- I find his ideas of how and why society come together to be convincing. What
- Hobbes has convinced me of is that his writings represent the natural
- frustration of a man who has seen his country wracked by civil war and who
- wants a decent monarch to come and put the situation under some sort of control
- again. I find Hume's ideas on the basis of morality to be far more
- intriguing.
-
- I have a feeling that this has had nothing to do with your question. Could
- you clarify it for me?
-
- Remo (four days to D-day)
-
-
- Remo Ostini * rxo868@huxley.anu.edu.au
- NCEPH, ANU * "Morality is a vast and inescapable
- GPO Box 4, * conspiracy in which we all participate."
- Canberra ACT 2601, Australia * - Norma Haan
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