(January 2, 2018 at 7:03 pm)Hammy Wrote: I take elements from negative utilitarian but I dunno if I count as a utilitarian seen as I don't actually aggregate utility.
I find myself drawn to pluralism because even negative utilitarianism seems to leave out a crucial part of ethics. I like the monistic theories though. I'm thinking my own pluralism might be a kind of set of monistic theories tied together with a heuristic. But I have much more study to do before I can confidently say anything about ethics. I like virtue ethics a lot, but that's prolly just me being a grecophile.
Quote:Phenomenology has impacted my actual life because it has helped me overcome the paradox of hedonism. It no longer makes sense for me to search for happiness itself when all the so-called external pleasures are in fact my internal phenomenology. We never truly experience objective reality. There is no such thing as 'happiness itself'... our positive experiences don't cause happiness, they are happiness.
I have to just come out and say I don't know dick about Husserl or phenomenology according to him. I am similarly unfamiliar with Heidegger or anyone who elaborated on Husserl's thought. I remember one of my profs saying something like consciousness is not a thing itself but rather the object of consciousness is the thing. That barely intelligible sentence is literally all I know about it. Why don't you summarize it/ tell me why you like it and save me a trip to plato.stanford? ...if you're feeling fruity that is.
