Sunday, July 14, 2013

Morality and Skill

Aristotle, Kant, and Utilitarianism each provides a formula for choosing well--the moderate option, the universalizable option, and the greatest happiness option, respectively.  Now, Magnus proposes that Nietzsche's contribution to that tradition determines whether or not one can will the eternal recurrence of an entertained possibility, though it is also arguable that his relevant formulation, rather, decides which is the more powerful option, i. e. the more comprehensive one.  In either case, doing anything well is Skill.  So, in these preeminent doctrines, a Moral principle defines a Skill, one distinguished from others skills not by kind, but by degree of generality.

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