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I think they go hand in hand. When you step outside your, let's call it a solipsistic bubble, then you take a stance of questioning things, evaluating things, a
by InclinedPlane 10y ago
I think they go hand in hand. When you step outside your, let's call it a solipsistic bubble, then you take a stance of questioning things, evaluating things, and investigating things. Most importantly that includes your own behaviors and responses. And that almost invariably naturally leads to a re-evaluation of one's "primitive" instincts such as vengeance and lust for violence. Now, certainly that's not always the case (as you point out), but I'd say it's more often the case than not. You claim those things are orthogonal, but to me it looks like they are highly (though not completely) correlated.
- forgottenpass 10y agoOne of the things that makes philosophy hard isn't just that questions are hard, but how blindingly simple the answers to hard questions can appear. There is a better quote about this phenomenon, but I can't find it. I think you're making the mistake that "progress" = "adopting my values." I (at least from the surface level conversation so far) don't disagree with your moral values, but part of this kind of conversation is the tricky bit of everyone finding a way to distance themselves from things they believe in.