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Imagining there exist platonic principles to be adhered to is fundamentalism, not virtue. Principles are compressed representations pointing to virtue, not thi
by nh23423fefe 4y ago
Imagining there exist platonic principles to be adhered to is fundamentalism, not virtue.
Principles are compressed representations pointing to virtue, not things in an of themselves to be reified and held.
- phphphphp 4y agoPrinciples are not absolutes, principles can evolve. Principles are not mandatory, people can operate without principles. I am arguing that Jack (and Elon) profess to be principled people (in this case, free speech) yet Jack is clearly demonstrating a radical shift in perspective without an accompanying radical shift in principles, which must only be the sign of someone who doesn’t follow principles. How can Jack hold the same principled view today that he held 2 years ago but disavow the choices he made 2 years ago? If you compress radically different virtues you don’t get the same principles.