Comments | pyratesarrrcool: Whatchoo gonna do bout it?

pyratesarrrcool

Whatchoo gonna do bout it?

Mar 29, 2006 11:29

Yesterday in my ethics class we were discussing the essence of a flourishing life. The teacher asked what we thought about it. Someone responded that he thought a flourishing life was whatever anyone wanted. He thought that if one liked one's life then it was a flourishing life. The class proceeded to talk about this and the teacher somehow ( Read more... )

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tamagachi March 29 2006, 18:30:42 UTC

O Voltaire! O humaneness! O nonsense! There is something about "truth," about the search for truth; and when a human being is too human about it--"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"--I bet he finds nothing.

; )

pyratesarrrcool March 29 2006, 22:32:33 UTC

I can't even decipher what you are saying. It doesn't help my understanding that you use that panzy-tongue.

shandaman527 March 29 2006, 20:36:48 UTC

no you made my day better.

pixiesrule March 29 2006, 23:34:22 UTC

barrett i see what you mean, but "flourishing" is a completely metaphoric adjective in this case and is therefore vague; it is open to interpretation (which is guided of course by the personal experience that forms opinions). so i really sort of agree with the kid in that only you can determine whether your life is "flourishing" or not; no one else is capable of evaluating it because of human bias.

pyratesarrrcool March 30 2006, 04:01:13 UTC

i see what you are saying but i have some problems with it. first, the logic in your last statement "only you can determine whether your life is "flourishing" or not; no one else is capable of evaluating it because of human bias." is not sound. this argument begs the question. if there is human bias then the individual will be affected by it just as much as the collective. so this does not give the individual grounds to reject the authority of the collective. (do not take me to say that the collective determines right from wrong; that is not what i am say or what i think.) if you would go on to say that human bias makes it impossible to for anyone at all, individual or collective or anyone, to determine an objective definition for "flourishing" then i couldn't disagree more. i am a realist and i trust my senses. i do not have time to spend wondering, perpetually (as the quest will turn out to be), whether or not my senses are showing me the real reality or just some personally-skewed version. second, "flourishing" is not necessarily ( ... )