Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Ethics and philospohy
So what do you prescribe to? Learn and comment....
Ethical egoism?
Bentham and Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism?
Ayn Rand's Objectivism?
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard's Existentialism?
Or the all encompassing Individualism or
Altruism?
What about egalitarianism?
Or John Rawl's Theory of Justice?
Why do you believe what you do? Does your moral philosophy conflict with our current political or economic systems? Are we selling Utopias or real world ideology?
Ethical egoism?
Bentham and Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism?
Ayn Rand's Objectivism?
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard's Existentialism?
Or the all encompassing Individualism or
Altruism?
What about egalitarianism?
Or John Rawl's Theory of Justice?
Why do you believe what you do? Does your moral philosophy conflict with our current political or economic systems? Are we selling Utopias or real world ideology?
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What is a cop-out? Isn't it an excuse? When I taught school I used to tell my students that excuses are like butts, everybody's got one and they all stink. I got in trouble for that, so I started telling them that excuses are like toes, everybody's got ten and they all stink. Then I read Henry Grady Weaver's the Mainspring of Human Progress whereupon I started telling them the truth.
Excuses are like idols you worship instead of the truth.
A cop-out is an explaination that covers your ass long enough to evade the deeper, more meaningful answers. It is an avoidance of the truth.
Are we concerned about being intellectuals or do we want to join the academic "elite"? Are we being pretentious? Pretense is doing what you percieve is required for acceptance and love from others.
I don't aim for acceptance into the accademic elite. I aim higher. That's why I explore original source materials as often as I can.
It's only a cop-out to say "God made us in His image because He desired relationship, and so He instilled into us those qualities that give us the highest dignity possible and gave us a mandate to take dominion over the earth," if its not true.
Nathan
Excuses are like idols you worship instead of the truth.
A cop-out is an explaination that covers your ass long enough to evade the deeper, more meaningful answers. It is an avoidance of the truth.
Are we concerned about being intellectuals or do we want to join the academic "elite"? Are we being pretentious? Pretense is doing what you percieve is required for acceptance and love from others.
I don't aim for acceptance into the accademic elite. I aim higher. That's why I explore original source materials as often as I can.
It's only a cop-out to say "God made us in His image because He desired relationship, and so He instilled into us those qualities that give us the highest dignity possible and gave us a mandate to take dominion over the earth," if its not true.
Nathan
I think Karl Popper and William Godwin were good philosophers.
It isn't overly important where natural rights come from. Saying they don't exist because you don't know where they come from would be a bad argument. Knowing the source won't change what they say or what real effects and consequences they have in the world.
Elliot
curi@curi.us
It isn't overly important where natural rights come from. Saying they don't exist because you don't know where they come from would be a bad argument. Knowing the source won't change what they say or what real effects and consequences they have in the world.
Elliot
curi@curi.us
"It isn't overly important where natural rights come from" It matters where you think NR's come from, because it shapes your understanding of law.
Nathan
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