(October 8, 2010 at 3:17 am)theVOID Wrote: Desirism is...
If you desire to be moral you should act like a moral person.
Whilst I agree with everything that desirism proscribes, I don't see how it provides a motivation for moral behaviour. Obviously, if I rape someone, I will receive condemnation, and punishment. But I have no incentive to give to charity, unless someone condemns me for not doing so. It doesn't deal with the is-ought gap. To put it another way, why should I care about fulfilling others' desires, provided that not doing so doesn't result in condemnation or the thwarting of my own desires?
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
