Question for the Day.

[explodi]

Are good people only lacking in self knowledge?

Comments

[bencollier]

No. Bad people are lacking in self-knowledge.

Also complete innocents can be good too.

Perhaps a little self-knowledge is a dangerous thing.

[explodi]

But surely one cannot survive without shitting on someone somewhere.

[bencollier]

My lovely new girlfriend would agree with you.

It's all about value creation, man. Everyone works together and we all get richer as a result.

[explodi]

ELUCIDATE

[dahud_ahes]

Ummmmm ... in my experience good people are just plain lacking.

[elemanzer]

All people, to a greater or lesser degree, lack self-knowledge. I think we have to go one step back and say that the difference is not self-knowledge, but self-reflectiveness. The higher one goes up on the spiritual scale, the greater one's capacity for self-reflection, and only hence self-knowledge. This is shown in many ways in the ideas connected with the Grade of the Crown

[explodi]

Hello! I thought you had vanished from the world of LJ!

I can go along with that definition of good and evil. Though I phrased the question badly, I was really talking in terms of moral behaviour in the world, and how we can go to great efforts to cultivate an ethical lifestyle, but one need ever only scratch a bit deeper to find one is still dependant on something morally destitute, and is guilty by association.

[elemanzer]

>> Hello! I thought you had vanished from the world of LJ!

Not wholly. It still flickers in my consciousness on occasion. It might blink out completely. It might not.

>> Though I phrased the question...

Oh. I shouldn't get involved in theoretical normative issues. I am far out of my depth there on many levels. For what it's worth, though, what you describe sounds to me like a definition of "honest mistake".