Our next class day, Monday the 1st, is again an odd-numbered day, so those with last names L-Z should again initiate posts to the blog, this time by midnight on Sunday. Those with last names A-J should reply to one specific L-Z-author post by midnight on Monday.
As before, for L-Z folks initiating posts, the basic idea is this: state a claim that Taylor makes and offer arguments against it (or if you wish, state a claim that Taylor makes and offer arguments for it -- in this case, arguments *that Taylor herself doesn't offer*).
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Taylor states and operates under the premise that if someone is acting through vice they are fundamentally confused or ignorant. I support this claim and plan to offer the following claims to legitimatize the claim. I believe that an adult (a legal adult, not a theoretical adult who can make moral decisions without confusion or ignorance) may act viciously in a state where the individual believes that acting viciously will actually not cause anyone harm, including his or herself. I believe one would be fundamentally wrong in this mode of thinking. Vices, on the contrary to virtues, do not promote the pursuit of interests, experience, and in fact do the opposite. One performs an injustice to oneself or to someone else every time one acts with vice. Operating under the idea that ideally, human beings should be able to live together in a community where healthy relations between people are good and fruitful to the community members. By envying someone, one is using one’s own mental capabilities to glorify the embodiment of another person’s being, instead of using your time and mind to cultivate talents and make progress, all in all, add something meaningful to your person; thus, one is performing an injustice onto oneself. This reasoning can be applied to all vices, where acting in such a way does and will negatively affect the potential of the agent and the victim, either in the short term or long term. The mere fact that an agent of vice can and will employ those vices to take away from someone else or even oneself, shows a propensity to harm the potential of a human being, and that in itself is what I believe to be the most base level of immorality.
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