Arnold Zuboff keeps asking a dangerous question – whether anyone has any real reason to act morally. He thinks it has led him to a new basis for ethics.
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Why Should I Care About Morality?
Re: Why Should I Care About Morality?
I quite like this view. The ethical choice is what we would desire if we had a perfect grasp (perfect knowledge) of our situation. But there does seem to be a leap from having a perfect grasp of the facts to having an appreciation for the desires of others. I can see that perfect knowledge is a kind of perspective from everywhere, but I am not sure I see how that necessarily entails embracing the desires of everyone. It can only convince anyone who already has an instinctive sympathy for others. After all, a pychopath might prefer to inflict pain and forgo the knowledge of having done so rather than falsely believe they had.
Re: Why Should I Care About Morality?
But isn't this incredibly close to the same problem that has been addressed by the economists, psychologists, anthropologists, and perhaps most famously, the sociobiologists?