Ep. 107: Uplifting Nonsense
Young Heretics
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The Incoherence of Moral Experience
Gewerth argues that contemporary moral experience has a paradoxical character. Each of us is taught to see himself or herself as an autonomous moral agent. But each of us also becomes engaged by modes of practice, aesthetic or bureaucratic which involve us in manipulative relationships with others. By rights i do not mean those rights conferred by positive law or custom on specified classes of person. The expression human rights is now commoner than either of the eighteenth century expressions. Whether negative or positive, and however named, they are supposed to attach equally to all individuals,. whatever their sex, race, religion, talents or deserts. They provide a ground for a variety of particular moral stancas.
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