Gaita on philosophy, corruption, and justification

Title: Gaita on philosophy, corruption, and justification
Creator: Mintoff, Joe
Relation: Journal of Philosophical Research Vol. 40, p. 97-116
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jpr2015102933
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: Does moral philosophy corrupt? Socrates spent his days talking with many others about goodness and virtue and suchlike, and, partly as a result of showing them how very ignorant they were about such things, he was eventually charged with corrupting the youth. Much more recently, Raimond Gaita has claimed that there are some things it is evil to believe or even to think, and that academic philosophy nevertheless instructs us to seriously consider such things. He lays two charges, that this is corrupt in itself, and corrupt in the effects it risks-anyone who seriously considers whether evil is an illusion is already morally corrupt, he claims, not to mention the risk that they might end up actually believing it. The aim of this paper is to examine whether moral philosophy as practiced today is susceptible to Gaita's charges.
Subject: Raymond Gaita; moral philosophy; evil; Socrates
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1315887
Identifier: uon:23019
Identifier: ISSN:1053-8364
Language: eng
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