Moral obligation need not be logical to be valid

Evidence

The story struck me as illogical (which it was), and therefore wrong (which it was not). It took the Holocaust to convince me that the second does not necessarily follow from the first. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 585

Categorization

• XREF: The grandfather’s Talmudic tale exemplifies a moral framework that refuses the cost-benefit calculus — a direct counterpoint to the rationality-as-consent-to-crime mechanism central to this chapter. — connects to: Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896; Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611; An ethics cannot be derived directly from ontological descriptions (+1 more)

Related

• Moral judgments like torture’s inhumanity need no expert validation (similarity 0.83)
• An ethics cannot be derived directly from ontological descriptions (similarity 0.81)
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.79)
• Individual moral judgment can remain intact without any supporting social rules (similarity 0.79)
• Rationality of the actor and of the action can diverge, making reason self-destructive. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation #complicates (0.75) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896