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- Sun May 06, 2012 11:11 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Re: Objective morality
Hi runamokmonk, I had said, “Mutual aid is only beneficial if rights reciprocity is already present. Rights reciprocity is a “modern” term a more basic kind of mutual exchange where each allows the other to pursue his or her own happiness without either one stealing and preying on the other. It is b...
- Sun May 06, 2012 10:46 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Re: Objective morality
Hi Metacrock, I like that definition of ethics as the “rational philosophical disposition of value systems and their grounding in reality by rational means.” That doesn’t sound whim based since “grounding in reality” sounds pretty objective, right? But I wouldn’t agree that “social acceptance” or “o...
- Sun May 06, 2012 10:43 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Re: Objective morality
Hi Miles, I had said, “If self sacrifice is moral, and if the self sacrifice is intentional, then it is a moral act. And if self sacrifice is immoral, and if the self sacrifice is intentional (because the individual put more value into things other than themselves), then it is an immoral act. Do you...
- Thu May 03, 2012 11:59 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Re: Objective morality
Hi runamokmonk, Thanks for engaging. I’ve reviewed your paraphrased my statements. For the most part you stayed consistent with my statements, but rationality is not a being, it’s a faculty that some beings have. Those that have it use it to grasp the way reality is. And objective morality is a syst...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:12 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Re: Objective morality
Hi Miles, I appreciate your “devil’s advocate” approach so long as it is healthy critical scrutiny as a common ally for the truth and opposed to error and not to the extreme of Nietzsche’s “Why agree when you can disagree?” aphorism. I had said, It comes down to the difference between doing what is ...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:32 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Re: Objective morality
Hi Metacrock, You say, I still say people are being mislead by all this talk about "objective ethics." Real ethicist don't talk about that. Dorothy Emmett who was a Christian, began her great book The Moral Prism talking about the relative nature of ethics. She was an intellectual defender of evange...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:53 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Objective morality
- Replies: 159
- Views: 183156
Objective morality
Hi all, I thought it would be good to start a separate thread on this topic. While it’s not a popular opinion that thinking well is the “catch-all” condition of morality and that everything else is just details, this seems to me to be it’s real essence. In fact, I consider it an “epiphany” of mine, ...
- Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:40 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: what are your current itnellectual projects?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33677
Re: what are your current itnellectual projects?
Hi Miles, I had said, The universal moral truth is that while there are zero sum occasions where I win and you lose, the greater benefit is in finding win-win non-zero alternatives. If you and I both want the same job, it will be non-zero sum, but in the bigger scheme, we rightly ought to pursue the...
- Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:32 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: what are your current itnellectual projects?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33677
Re: what are your current itnellectual projects?
Hi Miles, You ask, I know this may sound unnecessary, what makes our preferences inherently good? Preferences aren’t inherently good. In fact, they are often irrelevant to, even opposed to, what is actually good for the organism. But at bottom we are the actors with the ability to chose to act in ce...
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:50 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: what are your current itnellectual projects?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33677
Re: what are your current itnellectual projects?
Hi Metacrock, I had said, “You’ve probably noticed by now that I see rational self-interest to be the basis for all moral action, so I’m not getting what you mean by your first and last statements. Harmony and benevolence are consistent with it. Why should we do anything at all if it isn’t ultimatel...