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They're often the same thing. How people ought to live, is commonly built up from principles and axioms inspired by natural law. How you ought to live depends
by barrysteve 4y ago
They're often the same thing. How people ought to live, is commonly built up from principles and axioms inspired by natural law.
How you ought to live depends heavily upon the axioms you choose, and the axioms that do not coincide with nature and physics are often foolish.
- realjhol 4y ago> How people ought to live, is commonly built up from principles and axioms inspired by natural law. You have it backwards. Belief in natural laws is an axiom. Hardly anyone actually chooses their axioms. They're either handed to us, or expressions of innate personality in most cases. People generally decide what they think feels right, then reason backwards from there to conjure up a set of principles that they claim to live by.
- maroonblazer 4y ago>How you ought to live depends heavily upon the axioms you choose, and the axioms that do not coincide with nature and physics are often foolish. How are you defining "natural"? We treated each other, and animals, pretty horribly for centuries. This was 'natural'. Then we reasoned about what makes for the kinds of societies where the most number of people can flourish. Certainly not natural, nor foolish.
- nuancebydefault 4y agoWe all live by definition following physics laws. There's no 'ought' in physics, only is, was and statistics.