Question by googoodoll: What would Dostoevsky say about Kant’s theory on the good will?
Am reading the Brothers Karamazov again, and since I just took a class on virtue ethics, it just seemed so interesting, especially when Ivan presents the consequentialist argument to Alyosha and asks if he would kill a child to save the universe. Hmm.. And Alyosha can’t consent because he just cant harm the child!
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Answer by Jim
he wouldn’t he would force his alcohol ridden jizzum down kant’s gullet.
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drypress says
Its very easy to answer that the child would be killed. Its in keeping with the Crusades, something Kant might not say openly.
More interestingly, Kant might say about the Brothers Karamozov (if I remember the resolution of that dialogue correctly, in pessimistic ironies) there is a categorical imperative against depression and malaise that may actually compromise morals in themselves: e.g. look to the result, not the will.
–Nathan Coppedge