RE: How important are each of Haight's Five Foundations of Morality to you?
October 26, 2016 at 1:53 pm
(October 26, 2016 at 8:04 am)robvalue Wrote: Coming back to the fifth area, purity, I'm still rather confused. It's pragmatic to feed your body with healthy, "pure" things, and to do wholesome activities. This doesn't seem to have much to do with morality, but rather managing your health. I find the concepts of purity and sanctity to be dogmatic; labels which are put on certain things in order to remove them from criticism or discussion. Maybe there's more going on here than I'm understanding.
The way that I've had it explained is, supposing you're eating some pudding. It's good clean food, right. But suppose you drop some on your shirt. Then it's no longer food, it's made your shirt dirty. Same pudding, just a different viewpoint.