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my station and its duties

my station and its duties

December 2nd, 2020


6 Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’? The Social Origin in Absolute Idealism. Bradley. [Counter thesis: the top-down ideal thesis, according to which what ought to be is irreducible to what is (moral ideals are irreducible to existing models, the ideal self is irreducible to social relations (ES, 205)), and reality is altered to become ideal (e.g., the moral goal consists in the realization of the ideal of human nature). The concept of religion in ES and its relation to morality is a topic for separate research. Whatever is demanded from the person in the form of a positional duty is always justified, e.g., with a reference to a custom or value that is accepted by the majority. I suggest that “my station and its duties” is a rubric embracing a bundle of claims and theses: some Bradley accepts, some he denies; some are a part of the MSID theory, some belong to his critique of the MSID theory. More on “my station and its duties”: Wright (1984) analyses the concept of the moral organism and concludes that Bradley did not understood the term. And this is indeed limitation” (ES, 201). Bradley’s “my station and its duties” and its moral (in)significance, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-019-00049-0. Ethics since 1900. Bradley’s second argument (ES, 203-206) is against MSID’s normative thesis, and it consists in denying the bottom-up thesis (the reduction of ought to is). ), Ethics, Metaphysics and Religion in the Thought of F.H. judging a person good despite her vices, if she performs her positional duties: “It teaches us that a man who does his work … is good, notwithstanding his faults, if his faults do not prevent him from fulfilling his station” (ES, 181). Macintyre (1994) compares Bradley and Pincoff. The person relates the human ideal to the specific condition of her life, her relationship with others, the ideas about human excellence common for her time, as well as her intellectual and aesthetical aspirations. Bradley. MacEwen, (Ed. This might leave his approach to practical ethics looking rather too one sided.12 Sidgwick has a reply.13 He maintains that the two in-ternal defects are dealt with using “different methods” with problems Moral badness has more forms than failing to perform one’s positional duties: a person “can only forget his faults when he is too busy to think about them; and he can hardly be so always. (Ed. social and ideal? I argue that taking a religious point of view signifies abandoning the moral point of view. (ES, 182-183), The reductio ad absurdum reaches its apex in a lengthy ironic passage exposing the superficiality of the MSID theory’s generic normative theses. Process and Historical Crisis in F.H. (ES, 203-4). Vol. Bradley, F.H. (1999): Notes towards Ethical Studies [c. 1874-5]. I. London: Oxford University Press. ), The Impact of Idealism. Bradley. For instance, the MSID theory derives the normative thesis (and specific claims about what one ought to do and which actions/persons are right/good) from the descriptive thesis (statements about a matter of fact) because the theory employs the bottom-up idealization (reducing what ought to be to what is). View this article on JSTOR. The central focus is what theory of duty or obligation this position is meant to embody. Third, the reduction of moral norms to custom and law is erroneous, since “[a] man can not take his morality simply from the moral world he is in, for many reasons” (ES, 204). The moral goal is the reproduction of social reality, and the ideal self is the idealised social self. First, in response to the objection that MSID theory entails moral relativism (ES, 189-193),Footnote 20 Bradley distinguishes between institutionalised social norms, which he also calls “ordinary morality” (ES, 226) or “common social morality”, and true “Morality” (ES, 191). (1993). Compare to the communitarian “normative independency thesis”, which holds that local social practices have an inherent ability to generate obligation (Simmons 2001, p. 81). The discussion centres on a descriptive anti-individualist thesis that declares the supremacy of the social whole over the individual and argues that a person is fully determined by education, custom, race, national, and cultural determinants. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. ], Only common good is valuable in itself; it must be the goal of an individual human life (e.g. That is my essential side; my imperfections are not, and practically they do not matter. The Guards hitch up their belts and look around for another one who has been lazy, ineffective. [Counter claim: “[M]an is not much above the beasts unless more than social” (ES, 223, see also 203-4)]; Determinism: custom, hereditary features, national and racial characteristics determine personhood (ES, 166-169); Social psychology: for some, performing their positional duties, obeying the law and custom, is all that is morally required; for others, morality is associated with ideals representing demands of a higher order than social (ES, 205; 214-215); Sociological claim: there is historical evidence that people exhibit social behaviour (ES, 170) and societies superimpose their will over the will of individuals (ES, 165); Cultural claim: in existing societies, laws, custom, and tradition represent institutionalised norms (e.g. Here are the most important of his reasons. Ethical Studies. (1984). I do not mean that, for Bradley, the moral ideal is subjective. The generic descriptive thesis that it is a matter of fact, supported by cultural and historical observations, that society has authority over an individual, determining what she is and, through laws and custom, dictating what she ought to do. Believing that she is good just so long as she is performing her positional duties is a form of self-delusion or extreme faith. Searle, J.R. (1995). Here ideal which (for faith is) is realized in me by faith” (214). Ideals and Illusions. Rashdall, H. (1907). California: University of California Press. This is acknowledged, e.g., by Nicholson (1990, p. 31). has identified with the moral ideal. Despite the ambiguity of Bradley’s terminology, given the general development of his argument, it is obvious that, in Essay VI, “my station and its duties” no longer refers to positional duties. In addition to being a social requirement, an act must also be required from the ideal point of view. [Counter claims: (a) one is morally required to realize social ideals, produce art and knowledge (ES, 219); (b) one must evaluate social norms from a higher point of view (ES, 204); (c) personal perfection and the perfection of social requirements are moral duties (ES, 200; 204); (e) all moral duties are duties to oneself (ES, 219, n. 3; not to be confused with selfishness).Footnote 15], An action is right/good iff it is necessary for discharging one’s positional duty. 34-5). (2007). With variations, Bradley’s “my station and its duties” is understood as a thesis that, because of our social nature, we achieve our self-realization only when we are a part of a social whole,Footnote 8 and that our duties come from the station we occupy.Footnote 9 It is a position of conformity to the rules and customs of one’s society. It is hard to answer these questions based only on Bradley’s description of the moral ideal in ES, as it is not detailed enough. The Insufficiency of Ethics. But what if defending family honour requires killing an unmarried daughter who had sex with a man? Brink (2007) points to problems with Bradley’s Essay V, demonstrating the difference between Green and Bradley. Determining whether our society is in a corrupt state involves evaluation, which must be conducted with reference to a normative system which is external to the evaluated normative system and subjects it. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. In F.H. I interpret Bradley’s saying that the most important contribution to the content of the moral ideal comes from “my station and its duties” as this statistical claim. My current station consists of the following: [RX/TX] Main Rig: Icom 706 MKIIG w/ LDG Z100 ATU Second Rig: Icom 737A Radio Shack HTX202 Handheld [Antennas] 50′ Homemade Rotatable Dipole for 17meters 40′ Cushcrat A3 with 40 meter Add-on Kit (40-20-15-10) 50′ Carolina Windom 80-10 meters. Keene (Ed. Bradley does not imply that it is formed on the basis of personal preferences or whims. Simmons (1981) argues that moral obligation is not conditioned by positional duties. This involves—according to Rescher’s (1987) account of moral ideals—envisioning what the world would be like if there were no obstacles or hindrances to the realization of a value and it was fully realized, i.e. What is the ideal point of view? A corrupt society is blind to its corruptness: goodness/rightness is a matter of obeying social commands by definition. Positional duties as tasks that a person possesses because of her position/role.Footnote 2 As normative statements, positional duties say what I must do as a member of a social institution. The first critical evaluation of the MSID theory starts already on p. 181 within the discussion of its advantages, and, arguably, takes the general form of a reductio ad absurdum. Such values refer to the historical facts, practices, and beliefs of people belonging to the specific society or institution, and thus are institutional facts. (1962). The moral ideal is a personalized ideal: one can only adopt an ideal point of view from her own perspective. Bradley’s My Station and Its Duties. Thanks, as always, for reading, for reviewing, and for PM-ing. Moral self-delusion or ignoring one’s badness, “refusing to identify myself with the bad will of my private self”: [A]s a member in the moral organism, I am to consider myself real, and I am not to consider the false self real. Evaluating an act from the ideal point of view means to make a judgement that is reasonably expected from everyone in the same situation, despite their personal preference. All Rights Reserved. a possible world in which reality is a complete expression of the value. In an essay written over a century ago the philosopher F.H. III: From Kant to Rawls. Bradley Ethical Studies. Rejection of moral relevance of intention: “[MSID theory] tells us that the heart is an idle abstraction; we are not to think of it, nor must we look at our insides, but at our work and our life, and say to ourselves, Am I fulfilling my appointed function or not?” (ES, 181). Moral Principles and Political Obligation. Ethical Studies. contact us In Essay V, duties are social because they are authorised by existing social institutions; in Essay VI, because their realization is conditional upon our relations with other people: “They directly involve relation to other men, and, if you remove others, you immediately make the practice of these virtues impossible” (ES, 221). Social requirements are justified by values which are institutional facts (see Anscombe 1958; Searle 1995), i.e. For example, the society may be in a corrupt state or, as history shows, just bad and, thus, its demands may be bad as well. I suggest that, in ES, to take an ideal point of view implies, first, assuming that a value is fully realized in reality and, then, based on this assumption, to prescribe a course of action for the achievement of a desirable goal. ZEMO 2, 195–211 (2019). I will demonstrate that the relationship between positional duties and moral obligation in ES is properly approached via the normative concept of the moral ideal and the revised MSID thesis (Sects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This leads to a fundamental confusion about Bradley’s ethics, which, with such an approach, appears to lack satisfactory resolution of the problems with the MSID theory. Next! We cannot formulate Bradley’s position unless we develop a clear picture of what “my station and its duties” refers to (Sect. 10, Nos. The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. London: Clarendon Press. Journal of Philosophical Research, 19, 1‑8. It is doubtful that mere “supplementing” can make MSID a plausible moral theory. What a person ought to do is determined by her positional duties (ES, 173). New York: Cambridge University Press. Bradley’s message is that “the actual sphere of the objective world of station and duty” must be “amended by the ideals of its own improvement that grow out of itself, and… supplemented by non-social ideals” (Nicholson 1990, pp. Idealistic Studies, 22, 11-27. The chief engineer oversees the technical elements of the broadcast. Finally, according to the MSID theory, positional duties, while prescribing specific courses of action, depending on the occupied role, are in some sense universalizable (everyone having the same social roles as me would have the same duties). A society can only be said to be corrupt in the light of an external standard representing a value of a higher order. View this article's JSTOR metadata. Introduction. Please, subscribe or login to access full text content. London: Watts & Co. Stern, R. (2013). “Metaphysics and Ethics in Bradley’s Idealism”. Adopting a top-down idealization strategy, Bradley puts forward a revised MSID thesis, subordinating social requirements to the ideal point of view. The central focus is what theory of duty or obligation this position is meant to embody. I suggest, that the problem with the dominant view is that it fails to sufficiently differentiate MSID theory’s normative thesis, which Bradley rejects, and the revised MSID thesis, which he accepts. 100-1), James Bradley suggests that the MSID theory, which “represents the first theoretical elaboration of the nascent vocational ethic of service which went hand-in hand with the newly emergent ‘professions’” and is based on “the ethical self-definition of the expanding professional middle-classes in order to secure … the ‘organic’ interpretation of self and society” is “condemned” in ES, inter alia, because Bradley “finds it impossible ethically to legitimate any prevailing social order” (1996, pp. Ilodigwe argues that ES promotes an ethical theory that is capable of embracing social and personal points of view. 129-130 n. 1). Moral relativism in ES (connection to cultural relativism, dependency claim, moral universalism, and objectivism) demands a more detailed exposition than I am able to provide here. While in the former norms depend on the imperfect knowledge of “the truth of the human nature” that people have at a given period of time and location, in the latter norms reflect the truth of human nature, are objective and universalizable. Like in a job description, positional duties are attributed or “pertain” to (ES, 176) the station or role itself, and the person acquires these only when she occupies the respective station or attains the respective role. Many, e.g., Nicholson (1990) and Keene (2009), presuppose that the first element of the moral ideal is based on bottom-up idealization. I do not find this satisfactory because Bradley sees moral progress as self-realization (i.e. An essential part of this justification is the connection between the required act and the conception of myself as the embodiment of the truth of human nature. The theory’s limitations consist in the reduction of morality to existing social institutions: “We have thus seen the community to be the real moral idea, to be stronger than the theories and the practice of its members against it, and to give us self-realization. 163–4). Here are some examples of the dominant interpretation. As applied to my example, this means that, being a part of such a tradition, the parent may not know whether honour killing is morally justified and obligatory, but she has a prerogative of doubt and must use it. ), British Idealism and the Concept of the Self. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In the abovementioned quote, Bradley opens up the possibility of doubting that one’s positional duty is in all cases one’s moral obligation. The ideal is social because it reflects existing social practices. While as this shows, the outlook of ‘my station and its duties’ does not represent Bradley’s final position, it is here that the core of his account of ethical duties lies and it is therefore on this chapter that the identificatory accounts of his position have focused – so this will also form the centrepiece of our discussion, but where, in accordance with the structure of the book, this cannot properly be … This is the stage of ideal morality. It is most usually assumed that in tying obligations to social roles, the British Idealists were offering what the chapter calls an identificatory account of obligation: that is, … Crossley, D. (1989). The thesis says that what we are morally obliged to do often coincidesFootnote 3 with what we are required to do in virtue of our relationship with others, where the obligation is constituted by what others have a reason to expect from us from an ideal point of view. When morality is reduced to institutionalised traditional norms, “unless morals varied, there could be no morality; that a morality which was not relative would be futile, and I would have to ask for something ‘more relative than this’” (ES, 189). The ideal point of view, thus, has direct practical relevance: it informs the agent about the existing obstacles to achieving the desirable state of affairs and prescribes a course of actions that is required for the achievement of the state of affairs where the value is fully realized. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This chapter considers the idea of ‘my station and its duties’ as it figures in the work of T. H. Green and F. H. Bradley, who pioneered its significance. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. If my interpretation is valid, then the important—albeit latent—message that Bradley tries to give us with his confusing analyses of “my station and its duties” is: any demand that others put on us in virtue of our relations to them can be regarded as a moral demand when it is justified from the ideal point of view. MacNiven, Don (1996). F.H. I have at least two reasons to think so: Bradley’s criticism of the reduction of ought to is, and what can be seen as an argumentum ad absurdum showing that accepting the MSID theory yields serious moral problems. … Hence, not existing for the organism, it does not exist for me […] though bad habits cling to and even arise in me, yet I can not but be aware myself as the reality of the good will. Banchetti (1992) explores Hegelian overtones in the doctrine of MSID. For the MSID theory, there is no difference between morality and politics: “Personal morality and political and social institutions can not exist apart” (ES, 188). 13 ‘Duty and Virtue Are Moral Introversions’. Bradley tells us that the MSID theory denies the moral relevance of emotions, aspirations, desires and interests, as well as “visions of superhuman morality, … ideal societies, and … practical ‘ideals’ generally”. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. date: 02 December 2020, Social Role Accounts of Obligation in Green and Bradley. 2) and that the correct approach should start with clarifying the multitude of theses and claims that the phrase refers to throughout Essays V‑VI (Sect. This means that they cannot be truly universalized and do not apply to everyone in the same way. © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. My Station and its Duties: Ideals and the Social Embeddedness of Virtue. The act is morally obligatory iff it is necessary for the maintenance of my identity as a true human being. Bristol: Thoemmes. The MSID theory is one of four responses to the question about the ultimate moral goal (Essay II). Daly, C. (1963). Australian Journal of Philosophy, 56, 155-70. This ethics has been characterized as “my station and its duties,” after the title of a well-known essay by the British Hegelian F.H. Anscombe, G.E.M. Keene, C. (2009). ), Ethics and Basic Rights. an analysis of the term that spells out its specific theses and claims, explains connections between them, and specifies Bradley’s position towards them. In A. Manser & G. Stock (Eds. , and if you can't find the answer there, please Ideal morality is “no longer relative to the societies in which we live”. Best viewed in Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox browsers. III. Or are they prima facie duties? And Did Kant Think It Does? New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Simmons, A. Ideal Arts & Humanities. Such a judgement involves ranking external and internal values. (1951). Norman goes as far as to conclude that Bradley’s normative claims are unsustainable and must be revised (1983, p. 155).Footnote 10 Similarly, Banchetti (1992) and Bell (1984) believe that in ES the moral point of view is inherently contradictory and no fully satisfactory moral theory is possible. This rhetorical strategy allows the presentation of arguments as if they were coming from the doctrine’s adherent. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The problem with social expectations is that they are not truly universalizable, but only in a culture-relative or contextual way: everyone belonging to the same culture (i.e., accepting the same set of institutional facts as values) must have the same set of tasks when occupying the same social role. ), Collected Works of F.H. According to Wollheim, Bradley offers an “extended” MSID theory, according to which “[t]he first and … most important contribution [to the good self] comes from one’s station and its duties” (1969, 246–47). PubMed Google Scholar. Just the presence of a police station can make a community or neighborhood safer, regardless of what's inside it. Irish Theological Quarterly, 30(1), 3‑22. (2001). Unit of Social and Moral Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 40 A, P.O. This is a retrospective essay on Henry Sidgwick's "My Station and Its Duties" written to mark the 125th anniversary of Ethics. FAQs (2011). (1990). 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