tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post3656745349501348617..comments2024-03-28T19:14:33.619-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: Working to Ignore Our ViceEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-21340203418416635872008-08-09T12:33:00.000-07:002008-08-09T12:33:00.000-07:00Absolutely, Anibal! The empirical study of this i...Absolutely, Anibal! The empirical study of this is just in its infancy -- great unexplored possibilities for research!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-17097647206141416642008-08-09T09:59:00.000-07:002008-08-09T09:59:00.000-07:00One step further in the empirical understanding ab...One step further in the empirical understanding about the weakness of our "wilfull ignorance" (our choice to self-deciet for our interest) is to see where (for example, in moral contexts) and how, moral ideas lead us to self-erosion or self-indulgence. <BR/><BR/>In other words, what is the principle by wich sometimes rationalizations works to self-affecation or to self-diminish and the principle that makes more or less scores in our "moral image" and that of others<BR/><BR/>Its not enough for us to know that moral reflection is ambivalent, but to know when this ambivalence is trigerred and where is directed, either to dark side or to the bright side: a theory of the ambivalence in morality and a theory of moral reputationAnibal Monasterio Astobizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121020811080165520noreply@blogger.com