RE: The place of rage and hate
November 18, 2014 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2014 at 10:42 am by Mudhammam.)
(November 18, 2014 at 9:45 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I disagree. I think to say that robs a person of their agency. The only choice we have ever is how we react to a given situation. As for the rationale for hatred of people, people are often narrow minded, greedy, shallow and judgemental. All of those are traits worthy of contempt.How do you understand personal agency? Are natural disasters, as contemptible as their effects can be, robbed of agency by attributing prior changes in a natural process as their cause? Instincts and motives may be examples of higher level causation but their principles are the same.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza