tailieunhanh - PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS Part 6

Theo thường lệ, bộ Linh trưởng được chia thành 2 nhóm chính: prosimian và simian. Prosimian mang các đặc điểm rất giống với các linh trưởng cổ nhất, và bao gồm lemur của Madagascar, lorisiforms và tarsier. | 100 CHRISTINE M. KORSGAARD ity is unnatural and therefore he tends to favor an emotionbased or sentimentalist theory of morality. There are a number of problems with Veneer Theory. In the first place despite its popularity in the social sciences the credentials of the principle of pursuing your own best interests as a principle of practical reason have never been established. To show that this is a principle of practical reason one would have to demonstrate its normative foundation. I can think of only a few philosophers Joseph Butler Henry Sidgwick Thomas Nagel and Derek Parfit among them who have even attempted anything along these And the idea that what people actually do is pursue their own best interests is as Butler pointed out long ago rather In the second place it is not even clear that the idea of self-interest is a well-formed concept when applied to an animal as richly social as a human being. Unquestionably we have some irreducibly private interests in the satisfaction of our appetites in food and a certain kind of sex say. But our personal interests are not limited to having things. We 3Butler in Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel 1726 partly reprinted in Five Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue edited by Stephen Darwall Indianapolis Hackett Publishing Company 1983 Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics 1st ed. 1874 7th ed. 1907 . Indianapolis Hackett Publishing Company 1981 Nagel in The Possibility of Altruism Princeton Princeton University Press 1970 and Parfit in Reasons and Persons Oxford Clarendon Press 1984 . For a discussion of the problems with providing a normative foundation for this supposed rational principle see my The Myth of Egoism published by the University of Kansas as the Lindley Lecture for 1999. 4 Men daily hourly sacrifice the greatest known interest to fancy inquisitiveness love or hatred any vagrant inclination. The thing to be lamented is not that men have .