Sophie de Grouchy
3 important questions on Sophie de Grouchy
Basics Sophie de Grouchy
- Sympathy of individuals
- Capacity to sympathize (with others) is natural
Sympathy, virtue and justice
- Sympathy on a collective level.
- Thought / reflection produces ideas of moral good (satisfaction) and evil (remorse) in memory
- Do good to other people and that person is grateful to us = giving us satisfaction
- Idea of virtue:
- actions that give others a pleasure/harmful approved by reason on morality (in smaller communities / groups)
- Idea of justice:
- Needs a general law
- Right of property (general law for everyone (for the greatest good)
Civilization, institutions and legislation
Criticism on the collective level = civilization + institutions
- Institutions weaken our capacity of sympathy (weaken our desire to help others)
- People are not born bad (born with sympathy)
- If someone lose his sympathy, that is not because of an innate position, but because of the institutions they found themselves in
- Need to reform on reason and public utility (based on social and economic equality)
- Bad institutions removes people from each other and from themselves = make them not better, but worse.
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