{"id":32,"date":"2005-01-18T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-09-14T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T21:30:28","slug":"youth-and-senility-of-moral-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/moral-theory\/youth-and-senility-of-moral-development-32","title":{"rendered":"Youth and senility of moral development"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come under that of habit. [<a href=\"biblog\/?p=54\"><em>Utilitarianism<\/em><\/a>, Chapter 4]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a critical insight on the lay of moral theories. Utilitarianism and Aristotelian virtue theory are, respectively, the youth and senility of moral development. We train raw desire in youth to approximate virtuous behavior at maturity. Real virtue will be consummated in habit, the crowning achievement of dotage. But a moral trajectory of this sort, however, never attains remarkable height. Thus, we may pass from the unconsciousness of youth to the unconsciousness of old age, never having really glimpsed the truth&#8212;neither the horizon or the empyrean&#8212;of morality. Mill, as Aristotle, confirms the importance of his theory to praxis. Unwittingly, perhaps, they leave space for the more etiologically enlightening moral hypotheses of Hume and Kant, which are <em>not<\/em> grounded in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come under that of habit. [Utilitarianism, Chapter 4] This is a critical insight on the lay of moral theories. Utilitarianism and Aristotelian virtue theory are, respectively, the youth and senility of moral development. We train raw desire in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/moral-theory\/youth-and-senility-of-moral-development-32\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Youth and senility of moral development&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-s-mill","category-moral-theory","category-utilitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}