(May 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Started writing this before I read your post, but then altered it to incorporate points made by you. You deserved a hat-tip. Sorry.
If I'm not mistaken your approach seems to build on Ayn Rand's objectivism and I see room for much common ground here, being a libertarian myself.
More or less, though there are quite a few points on which I diverge.
(May 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I’ve always felt that Aristotle was onto something with his idea that happiness is the good that all desire, although as I remember he came to that conclusion empirically. I strongly suspect that it comes down to the choice: rejecting or affirming the very idea of morality and tacitly accepting the implications of that choice.
No actually, Aristotle didn't. If he had, then Hume's is-ought argument wouldn't have had any weight.