On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi meekerdb > > Although a brilliant logician, Russell was far left (no doubt a > communist and so anti-christian). His diatribe against Christianity > is a prime example. It's totally misinformed and mistaken. > > Ethics is, at bottom, loving your neighbor as your self. > Well that's easy. I don't love or even particularly like myself. > > > [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] <[email protected]]> > 1/3/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* meekerdb <[email protected]> > *Receiver:* everything-list <[email protected]> > *Time:* 2013-01-02, 18:21:27 > *Subject:* Re: The evolution of good and evil > > On 1/2/2013 2:24 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > That really has nothing to do with Evil though, except in sloppy > reasoning. True Evil is about intentionally initiating social harm. Getting > smallpox is not evil, it is just unfortunate. Giving someone blankets known > to be infected with smallp > > > On the contrary it is sloppy ethics to confine 'evil' to intentional > social harm. First, it implies that socially bad is bad simpliciter, but > values are ultimately personal values. Second, it implies that as soon as > we find a physical cause (he was drunk, he had YY chromosmes, his father > beat him) for a behavior it's not longer evil. But all behavior has a > physical cause. So I'm ok with just dropping the term 'evil' and just > referring to good/bad for individuals and good/bad for society as > derivative. But I think it's a hangover from theodicy to refer to human > actions as evil but not natural events - it's part of the idea that humans > are apart from nature. > > Brent > Ethics is, at bottom, the art of recommending to others the > self-sacrifice necessary to cooperate with ourselves. > --- Bertrand Russell > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
