EBook For The Beam and the Mote On Blame, Standing, and Normativity 1st Edition

EBook For The Beam and the Mote On Blame, Standing, and Normativity 1st Edition By Kasper Lippert Rasmussen By Kasper Lippert Rasmussen

The Bible says, “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” This means it’s unfair to criticize others for small faults when your own mistakes are even bigger.

Many people think that if someone is guilty of wrongdoing, they cannot fairly blame others for similar actions. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen explores this idea in his study of hypocritical blame and its ethics. He argues that hypocrites lose the right to blame because they don’t follow the rules they are using to judge others. Hypocritical blame is also morally wrong because it treats the person being blamed as inferior.

The book goes beyond blaming and looks at other moral actions, like praising and forgiving, which also require a person to have the right to act. Lippert-Rasmussen even examines how standing applies to other actions, like giving advice or making judgments about knowledge. In the end, he shows how these ideas can help us understand how morality works in relationships and why using unfair stereotypes is morally wrong.