RE: Very short version of the long argument.
September 11, 2017 at 8:39 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2017 at 8:41 am by bennyboy.)
Here's the cognitive flip:
1) People have feelings about things. They call the feelings they like "good."
2) People extend feelings into systems of thoughts. They now have ideas they call "good."
3) People imagine goodness to be a property of feelings, thoughts or things.
4) People say, "There must be a perfect feeling / thought / thing," so when they have the feelings and ideas already mentioned, they feel they are coming "into contact" with something which has the property of goodness.
Goodness is NOT in fact a property of things, except in our subjective evaluations of them. To know goodness, know yourself. There's nothing to connect to, reach out to, discover, adhere to, conform to, obey, or share your loot with. "Good" is ultimately always just going to be a word that means "what I like."
1) People have feelings about things. They call the feelings they like "good."
2) People extend feelings into systems of thoughts. They now have ideas they call "good."
3) People imagine goodness to be a property of feelings, thoughts or things.
4) People say, "There must be a perfect feeling / thought / thing," so when they have the feelings and ideas already mentioned, they feel they are coming "into contact" with something which has the property of goodness.
Goodness is NOT in fact a property of things, except in our subjective evaluations of them. To know goodness, know yourself. There's nothing to connect to, reach out to, discover, adhere to, conform to, obey, or share your loot with. "Good" is ultimately always just going to be a word that means "what I like."
