clark40 wrote:
The theory of radical evil is that for a person to do something wrong, he or she has to first have decided in general, prior to any other action, that the first principles of right and wrong will not be the first principles of his or her life. This basic corruption, when coupled with particular occasions for deviation from moral standards, is the source of all concrete immoral action. Since morality is (according to the Standard Model of radical evil) a function of reason, and reasoning and thinking come to pretty much the same thing, that means that our general perversity comes from perverting our use of our ability to reason or think. (Note also the equation of freedom with thinking re: autonomy and the ethics of the categorical imperative.
This seems like some kinda robot... I mean, this is what I posted at the start of one of my earlier threads.
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