There are always better and worse choices, in every situation, for every person. The challenge is to be centred enough to honestly see them and choose accordingly. Rules can provide useful guidelines, but they need not remove our freedom and responsibility, unless we let them. Or, to use one particular form of religious language in a descriptive fashion; right action follows on contemplation, on the basis of the principle of minimising suffering in so far as one can judge the situation. We cannot not act. Finding the way to wisdom involves individual (and sometimes communal) moral development, but this is something which is - in many ways - better lived than discussed.
Francis On 23 Aug., 17:35, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 23, 6:44 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Relativism is something I don’t understand. I hear it often in > > here. The way I understand it is that cultural relativism and moral > > relativism or “any” kind of relativism poses things as “true” only in > > a certain context. <<<BB > > > First you say it's something you don't understand and then you say you > > understand it as posing things as true, only in certain context. > > > Have you answered your own question? > > No, as I do not understand it fully > > > Juan: "Hot Peppers are really "Good" for you" (true) > > Billy Bob: "That's true but I have an ulcer so they're "Not Good" for > > me" (true) > > > It's really all the same morally or culturally. There are those who > > think it's sick that some cultures kill and eat dogs/cats, but at that > > same time in their own culture kill and eat other animals as an > > accepted practice. > > I am not concerned with the examples you present. I am concerned > about other examples that might be proposed based on the general > principle of relativism. If one accepts relativism as "valid" then > it may be applied to anything as "justification." I see not only a > dangerous side to it but an avoidance of finding a deeper truth, and > in so makes a claim that that deeper truth does not exist, and does > not matter. A way of justification and not truth. In many cases it > is both harmless and "valid" but relativism has a built in "excuse" > which is context. And in the hands of the creative, might lead one > away from an underlying truth, should there happen to be one (Just my > take on it of course) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" 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/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
