RE: What is goodness?
July 16, 2020 at 5:03 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2020 at 5:09 am by Porcupine.)
(July 15, 2020 at 7:56 pm)Sal Wrote: [...] the main one being minimizing harm and suffering. The positive spin of those values is increasing happiness and wellbeing overall.
Sounds like Epicureanism.
(July 16, 2020 at 3:51 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Let's propose that Janet's most earnest desire is to be harmed.
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Could we still be in the wrong for being the individual who supplies that harm? The satisfaction of our desires may not align with the good. In an objective system, things are right or wrong regardless of whether we desire them (or desire to avoid them).
What do you think of the notion of philosophically understanding harm in such a way that something is only harmful to an individual if it is unwanted?
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
