Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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Moral Instinct
Moral realism relies on our moral sense, which we have to refine. We can extend our circle of concerns by having empathy for all humanity.
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Abortion-the realist position!
This moral realist heartily agrees with the previous essay about abortion.
We use reason and facts, not dogma and superstition to guide us.
Those notorious enforced- pregnancy sheep^ let dogma and superstition guide them. They'd make their woo the law of this Union.
We have to assert the right of moral choice not only for women but also to guard against wrongful treatment of children.
Those sheep also disfavor contraception and the use of condoms. Not only do they prevent unwanted pregnancies, condoms protects against disease. For the Vatican to oppose that, contemns it as a source of grievous immorality!
^Some non-religious also are anti-abortion for other reasons.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Universal Love lives!
We can practice universal empathy in varying degrees, contrary to that previous article. We can donate to charities that give aid around the world.
That author uses the all or nothing fallacy. We can thus overcome our "tribal" mentality.With the late Dr. Paul Kurtz, I exhort people to practice the planetary ethic.
I state empathy instead of love as how could one love the big wrong-doers?
Were I in Africa, my tribe would be any group with which I was working, not even my own family. That shows also the emptiness of that author's view.
Stoicism and I
Stoicism figures as part of covenant morality for humanity-the presumption of humanism in that it promotes virtue as a component of human flourishing, in common with Aristotle's eudemonia and Epicurean flourishing. Covenant, then is quite eclectic.
And virtue can lead to happiness, and ti's a virtue to get happy. Virtue and long-range hedonism go hand in hand!
However, stoicism can adhere with naturalism only by denying the supernatural.
Stoics can be active participants in life, whilst accepting its slings and arrows, as Emperor Marcus Aurelius attests.
What would you say?
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