Morality

Summary

Dominique Pagani organizes his reflection on morality around the opposition between objective and subjective morality. Greek morality, which is objective, ignores intention: a crime is a crime, and punishment is immanent in the crime. Christian and modern morality takes the subject and their responsibility into account; he considers it more just, but notes that it opens the door to hypocrisy12. He links objective morality to Hegelian Sittlichkeit and points out that "morale" comes from mores, customs. He sets it against the subjective "all you have to do is" morality, which he also calls "moraline" and which changes nothing for the one who suffers: true morality, he says, makes light of morality34. For him, good and evil arise with fault. The animal, which does what it can and not what it wills, is not a moral subject5. Following Rousseau, he places morality in the civil state6. He also distinguishes morality from other domains: from knowledge, since the question "what ought I to do?" does not belong to it, from legality, and from the beautiful, since the Nazis admired landscapes7.

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