RE: Good and Evil
May 14, 2015 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2015 at 10:01 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
No, emjay. I was responding to bennyboy and, benny, I really do admire your general rigor even though I disagree with your Idealist stance. At the same time, I do believe your statements about emotion are not reflective of your usual open-minded approach. I hope you can forgive my curt response. - Chad
I think it is fair to say that you would not privilege one way of thinking over the other and at the same time accept that they serve in different capacities.
(May 13, 2015 at 10:17 pm)Hatshepsut Wrote: I think the brain process angle is fascinating because it shows the gulf we insert between emotion and reason is artificial....I've held on this thread that emotions are a form of intelligence.
I think it is fair to say that you would not privilege one way of thinking over the other and at the same time accept that they serve in different capacities.
(May 13, 2015 at 10:17 pm)Hatshepsut Wrote: If no subjective self existed, we wouldn't even need to discuss a notion of "the good." Yet principles for ethics don't arise in a willy-nilly way either; reasoning must be used to make ethical arguments.I think the atheists argue that no reasoning suffices to provide that guidance. They would say that ethical reasoning flows out of evolutionary programmed emotional motivations. I don't agree, but I see that as the claim being made.
