{"id":1233,"date":"2019-03-14T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2019-03-14T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:48:45","slug":"moral-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/03\/14\/moral-necessity\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><em>&#8220;gastronomically necessary&#8221;?\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1234 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/gourmandise-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/gourmandise-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/gourmandise.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/21\/christine-korsgaard-what-we-owe-a-rabbit\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tom Nagel&#8217;s review<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of Christine Kosgaard&#8217;s book,\u00a0<em>Fellow Creatures: Our O<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0198753853?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thneyoreofbo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0198753853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bligations to the Other Animals<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thneyoreofbo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0198753853\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Philosophers&#8217; make commendable (but unavailing) efforts to rationalize (and even formalize) morality.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">It&#8217;s all much simpler than all this, but I haven&#8217;t the time to sketch it long-hand.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">The only biological necessity (vital interest) is survival and freedom from suffering.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">it is sentient living organisms who have vital interests.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">There can be conflicts between the vital interests of different sentients (e.g, predator and prey).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">The only moral imperative is to not cause unnecessary suffering.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Taste is not a vital interest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;gastronomically necessary&#8221;?\u00a0 On\u00a0Tom Nagel&#8217;s review of Christine Kosgaard&#8217;s book,\u00a0Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals. Philosophers&#8217; make commendable (but unavailing) efforts to rationalize (and even formalize) morality. It&#8217;s all much simpler than all this, but I haven&#8217;t the time to sketch it long-hand. 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