On 03 Jan 2013, at 16:13, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net>
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.
"loving your neighbor as your self" makes also the masochist into a
sadist. I think we should respect ourself and ourselves (unless victim
of disrespect), but to love, necessarily? Love also can be applied
only on the lovable one.
Like with all forces, it is a question of "right" exchanges.
Bruno
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/3/2013
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen
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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
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