@Deckard,
Deckard;128864 wrote:
Yet is a preference for unbiased objectivity itself a bias?
These are the kinds of questions I relish. It may the imp of the perverse, but I love a good twist.
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Deckard;129219 wrote:
Doesn't knowledge of what is morally good necessarily transform the knower?
I think most knowledge worth talking about transforms the knower. Good issue to consider.
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sometime sun;128673 wrote:Philosophers are usually unbiased but most have had to spend great amounts of energy to be unbiased.
I may be biased, but this isn't how I see philosophers. To me they are the experts of bias. They seek to deliver, generally,
universal truths. They want their own bias to become
everyone's bias. Or at least an elite that is worthy.
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Deckard;129204 wrote:Can a morally bad person be a good moral philosopher?
I think this is a fair question. The answer would almost have to come from one's own moral philosophy, or one's total philosophy which addressed the significance of morality or decency.
I'm inclined to say yes, but not without reservations.