Re: Bakhtin, moral answerability...

From: Paul H.Dillon (illonph@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 14:44:09 PST


Judy,

You ask,

> Whose child-rearing are you referring to?

Anyone who has raised a child, when they refuse to allow them to eat all
their Halloween candy the same night they bring it home, to allow the doctor
to put a needle in their arm, and on and on and on.

It doesn't mean that one doesn't feel the child's fear, pain, etc. it
simply means that the awareness of that emotion doesn't provide the basis
for the right (the moral) action.

One could continue such examples without end.

Paul H. Dillon



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