shadowind

heres paragraph from an essay i'm writing for school, it sums up my ideas

"Morality what is moral? One man’s moral is another man’s immoral. How is one to say which man is correct? Most judge this by how much that person’s morality aligns with their own morality. It’s a mistake to think that there is an objective and well defined morality. Each morality is one’s own, not a universal experience. The guilt one may feel is the excitement of another. Each man has his own code, his own morality. To say that man would fall into immorality with out society is meaningless with out the definition of that morality. Man may differentiate from the morality of his original society without the constant pressures of that society. The new morality may be seen as different and thus immoral by the old standard. However by the current standard, the current standard is correct, or perhaps doubted. To judge a group as immoral or moral is to judge one’s own morality. Ones own is usually considered the “right” one, unless one considers the relativity and context of the situation and can detach himself. Then another standard would be used to judge the correctness of an action. However what standard do we have to judge a standard? If we have a standard to judge of standard, then what standard to judge the meta-standard? It goes on like this forever. Similar to how an idea about an idea, is just another idea. There is no way to know 100%, no “absolute” good or bad. Those adjectives only have meaning as a descriptor of a relationship, a relationship between two standards or ideas. Without two nouns, the adjective of good or bad is nothing, nonsense, nothing but perhaps a emotion. Words carry more then just ideas, they carry emotions. They also carry associations not in the definition of the word. Like the word “water” may carry the association of death, or it may carry life. It depends on the associations of water, the associations are unique to the individual. It is in large part these associations that help in defining an individuals sense of wrongness or rightness. "

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remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll