Episode #059 ... Kant pt. 4 - Categorical Trolley Cars
Philosophize This!
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Common Sense Is Just a Collection of Prejudices
People make decisions for specific reasons, not because they're appealing to this elusive thing that they call common sense. When you cite things like common sense or sound moral reasoning as the justification for why you made a decision you still are making that decision based on something else. You're just using this term common sense as a cat euphemism. I started to realize that this thing that we call morality, this process that we call ethics, not as cut and dry as i once thought. The more i read, the more i started thinking about all the contingencies, all the different individual circumstances. Instead of gaining clarity from my so called iron clad rules, i started questioning myself more.
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