Sounds like a fun read. Epistemology needs something like this appeoach if only to wake up us old guys falling to sleep in our cozy philosophical chairs built in the seventies!
And never had any laurels to rest on in the first place!
There's nothing wrong with critical assessments of others.
In our culture, to 'be judgmental' is somehow a failing, even a character flaw, even as 'prudent judgement' is something to be aspired to.
If I'm not supposed to make critical judgments about others, how on earth am I supposed to construct and maintain a moral framework? I'm thinking about, for example, judgments of better and worse conduct. I'm not supposed to criticize worse conduct, or encourage better?
The examples in the essay include concerns for another's well-being- are they making good use of their time, or making choices that seem unwise. We're supposed to be silent? Passive and indifferent? Make no determination of good/bad, better/worse, right/wrong/ with regard to ourselves or others at all?
I'll gladly criticize anyone who claims they don't make such determinations- every day of their life- as simply dishonest.
Sounds like a fun read. Epistemology needs something like this appeoach if only to wake up us old guys falling to sleep in our cozy philosophical chairs built in the seventies!
And never had any laurels to rest on in the first place!
Agreed.
There's nothing wrong with critical assessments of others.
In our culture, to 'be judgmental' is somehow a failing, even a character flaw, even as 'prudent judgement' is something to be aspired to.
If I'm not supposed to make critical judgments about others, how on earth am I supposed to construct and maintain a moral framework? I'm thinking about, for example, judgments of better and worse conduct. I'm not supposed to criticize worse conduct, or encourage better?
The examples in the essay include concerns for another's well-being- are they making good use of their time, or making choices that seem unwise. We're supposed to be silent? Passive and indifferent? Make no determination of good/bad, better/worse, right/wrong/ with regard to ourselves or others at all?
I'll gladly criticize anyone who claims they don't make such determinations- every day of their life- as simply dishonest.