A MATTER OF TASTE... MORAL TASTE

ENJOY PHILOSOPHY MEETS WEEKLY EVERY SUNDAY BETWEEN 11.30 AND 14.30 AT EDUARDO VII PARK, HERE:** https://goo.gl/maps/5e3jKFEweXkNvDdK6

ITS THE GARDEN BETWEEN THE “CARLOS LOPES PAVILLION” AND THE “PRAIA NO PARQUE” RESTAURANT AT EDUARDO VII PARK.

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ONLY ETERNAL CURIOSITY AND THE PLEASURE OF KNOWLEDGE.

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We will learn, debate, enjoy and investigate philosophers and diverse themes from the philosophical perspective. Each reunion is structured as a conversation among all attendees about that day s philosopher softly moderated by the organizer. The conversation will kick-off from the very brief suggested reading providing easy access to all attendees both to the philosopher and the conversation.

Let´s be greek and dive today on…

TASTE... the taste of Ethics. A sweet and sour taste.
Since the experience of acting ethically often involves a deeply emotional process... Yes, something apparently beyond our clear knowledge tastes right... or tastes wrong. And that arrives in such a dimension that some quite clever minds, as the eternally challenging David Hume, reduced Ethics to a matter of sentiment. Yes. As liking a sandwich.
Or not. Although not totally arbitrary, a sentiment finally, with all the misterious genealogy and irrationality sentiments involve.

We are glad to kill the cockroach that has entered our home but feel terrible seeing a beautiful butterfly splatter on our car windshield. Why? Both are insects and both are invading our property in a way, but we don’t often share the same sentiment towards them.

The claim would make any ethical debate doomed to failure given the difficulty of rationalizing the sentiments in order to translate them into debatable arguments, defensible and criticizable.

So, lets think about taste... moral taste...