The numbers in brackets indicate the argumentative strategies.
References to these strategies are at the end of the text.
What is ethics?
" For many biological and cultural programming that we, men finally can always choose something that is not in the program (at least, that is not the all) (1). We can say "yes" or "no", "I" or "will not" (2). No matter how cuddly we meet by the circumstances, we never have a single path to follow, but several (1).
When I speak of freedom, is this what I mean. What we are opposed to termites and tides, everything moves so that necessary and inevitable (3). Certainly we can not do anything we want , but also true that we are not bound to want to do a single thing (5). And here it should be noted two clarifications regarding freedom:
First: We are not free to choose what happens to us (1) (being born that day, of such parents and such country, having cancer or being hit by a car, be handsome or ugly (...) etc. (2)), but free to respond to what happens to us of this or that way (1) (obey or rebel, be cautious or reckless, vindictive or resigned, the fashion dress bear costume of the caves, defend or flee Troy, etc. (2)).
Second: Be free to try something has nothing to do with do without fail (1). Is not the same freedom (Which is to choose as far as possible (4)) that omnipotence (which would not always get what you want, but seemed impossible (4)). "
Fernando Savater-Ethics for Amador
References: (1) Generalization
(2) Exemplification
(3) Comparison
(4) definition (in this case, the definition of "freedom" and "omnipotence")
(5 ) Grant
See definitions of argumentative strategies
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