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> Emotion regulation sure sounds like what a layman might describe as a virtue to me. Err, do you mean the opposite? I'm 95% sure you meant the opposite. "Emot
by NoNotTheGreeks 2y ago
> Emotion regulation sure sounds like what a layman might describe as a virtue to me.
Err, do you mean the opposite? I'm 95% sure you meant the opposite. "Emotional regulation" has well-grounded semantics, assuming you accept having control over emotions. Virtue is the woo-woo word without any clear semantics.
- rcxdude 2y agoVirtue's not a particularly vague word: it's used to describe a trait that is morally good to have (in the view of whoever's calling something a virtue).
- NoNotTheGreeks 2y ago[flagged]
- mattmanser 2y agoYou should learn about a few of these things, you're pretty off on most of it: - 'Modern' morality was only invented in the late 1700s. Not millennia ago. Millennia ago was Aristole's Nicomachean Ethics which was pretty much based around virtues. Mill's utilitarianism and Kant's Categorical Imperative were written in the late 1700s - Quibbling about the meaning of words is basically a waste of your life. Calling words you don't like woo woo is a waste of everyone else's time. pg wrote a good essay on why: https://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html https://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html