Acting against Wish according to Will: John Locke's Ethics

Emiliya Tajsina ()
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Emiliya Tajsina: Department of Philosophy, Kazan State Power Engineering University, Kazan

Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Sectiunea Filosofie si Stiinte umaniste/ Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty - Section: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences, 2019, vol. 7, issue 1, 78-90

Abstract: John Locke is best known for his theory of knowledge. However, this theory includes practical, social, moral issues, containing ethics and meta-ethics, the latter being interested in epistemological nature of moral judgments. In his most famous Essay on Human Understanding Locke analyzes the domain of morality, paying great attention to the dichotomy of pleasure and pain as the main axis round which this domain rotates. In this paper the accent is put on the trichotomy of Will, Desire, and Freedom, since people often act against their wishes but according to their own will. The conclusion is given, that control of ones passions is the true progress on the path of freedom. In order our mind was free to explore any subject and make a judgment, we must educate our passions. Trained morality turns the unpleasant or indifferent in a pleasant and welcome, if only people do everything in their power. And Philosophical law is the measure of virtue and vice.

Keywords: theory of knowledge; ethics; will; desire; freedom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.18662/lumenphs/19

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