What do you like in a friend? In a lover? What do you seek from family? From life?
Your answers to these questions reveal your values. WHAT DO YOU VALUE? The morals you feel are important in yourself and others become obvious when you realise what you value. The question of what people do, and/or should value is not an obscure, pretentious question for Philosophers in ivory towers. Your answer to it will determine your friendships, if you love, who you love, your choice of career, your lifestyle, and how quietly you slip away as you die. And, perhaps, the quality and quantity of the sex that you have. Although you'll need to get a life too for that.
The smartest ethicisists don't think about integenerational equity, human rights, social problems, human nature and justice to solve world dilemmas.
They're aware of the personal dimension of these problems. So should you be
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2 comments:
Ah, ethics.
I remember my professor back at Such and Such university trying to get us young fools to come up with a fail-safe, personal life-ethics code more creative than "I do what God tells me because God says it is right."
We couldn't.
He became very angry. Threatened to walk out on us.
Lol sounds like an interesting Prof. I can understand his frustration, I might also have expected more of uni students. But then again it's an extremely complicated issue, and what kind of student would really get up and start volunteering such complex and possibly personal information?
Walking out wouldn't have helped much though had he gone ahead!
Creating your own ethic I see as very challenging, because of all the things you must confront about yourself and your values along the way. And it's always a work in progress of course, so the answers to your questions will change. But at least they're YOUR answers.
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