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For what reason would a retarded person not have morals? An adult may have the intellect of an 8-year-old, but 8-year-olds know right and wrong, they just don't understand complex issues.
Hey, I just read Sound and Fury and I actually hated it but whatever. Anyway, I am suppose to write a paper and I decided to write a paper on how Benjy (this "idiot" or retarded person) is not amoral. Where he does not just present an amoral report of sensations and reactions... but reading in the internet, almost everything points out that retarded people dont have morals. What do you think?
You have the ending a little bit wrong, however.
Quote from: EmJayBee83 on January 20, 2009, 05:44:17 PMYou have the ending a little bit wrong, however.You clicked on this thread thinking it was about George Bush, however.
Both PLATO and ARISTOTLE associated human value with the ability to reason. They differentiated mankind from other living beings by the quality of the intellect. People who lacked the capacity to reason were considered barely human and therefore socially inferior... http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Re-So/Retardation.html
In this book, it showed that Benjy failed to do that. When schoolgirls walked past him, he moaned and chased them. As a result, he was castrated.
MOrality is defined as having distinction between right and wrong. In this book, it showed that Benjy failed to do that. When schoolgirls walked past him, he moaned and chased them. As a result, he was castrated.
Well, whether humans have a desire to be good (as the Greeks thought) or a desire to be evil (original sin,) morals are not a priori. Any perception of right and wrong an autistic person would have would be from their limited perspective (just as are perceptions of right and wrong are from our limited perspective); however, on whether or not an autistic person will choose right or wrong, I actually do not subscribe to the Christian idea of "original sin" but rather the Greek idea of "evil is ignorance."
Quote from: Claude Homer Fong on January 22, 2009, 09:12:27 PMMOrality is defined as having distinction between right and wrong. In this book, it showed that Benjy failed to do that. When schoolgirls walked past him, he moaned and chased them. As a result, he was castrated.Was that because he made a wrong moral choice, or because he responded to the compulsions of his body without understanding that there is a moral choice there, and that he was supposed to exercise restraint? I ask the question innocently, as it's been too long since I've read this to remember precise detail, but the point is that just because he acted that way does not automatically mean that it was the result of a wrong moral choice. At least, not without additional insight into his state of mind.
Much like the naturalist, the nihilist, and the new-ager, yes?
Quote from: Minister Polarius on January 25, 2009, 12:22:37 AMMuch like the naturalist, the nihilist, and the new-ager, yes?Or the Socrate, the Platonist, and the existentialist.
Quote from: Colin Michael on January 25, 2009, 09:54:58 PMQuote from: Minister Polarius on January 25, 2009, 12:22:37 AMMuch like the naturalist, the nihilist, and the new-ager, yes?Or the Socrate, the Platonist, and the existentialist. Or the Romulun, Sith, and Wood Elves.
Or Bono (obviously.)