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dk · 05-22-2003, 05:33 AM

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dk: I don't see how morality can come from within us, when its "we" that tracks and changes what "IS NOW". If its "we" that directs our actions then morality follows from an externally enforced union of some sort.
Originally posted by Darth Dane
No we see within our minds how we affect the world and how that in turns affects us, but "We" experience inside our heads/minds first, before the external world. Like in dreams, you are you...in a dream. Depending on circumstances you will adopt perhaps different morality, but it comes from within as I see it. You can go against your own morality and so on.

hmmm perspective, 1st person and 3rd person. So people see the world in the 3rd person, but act upon the world in the 1st person. In a sense, morality translates a 3rd person objective world into a 1st personal real world. In effect I can only know what's objective by an act of moral judgment. So its my personal commitment to a personal "Right to Life" that makes life [im]moral.

Darth Dane · 05-22-2003, 06:09 AM

hmmm perspective, 1st person and 3rd person. So people see the world in the 3rd person, but act upon the world in the 1st person. In a sense, morality translates a 3rd person objective world into a 1st personal real world. In effect I can only know what's objective by an act of moral judgment. So its my personal commitment to a personal "Right to Life" that makes life [im]moral.

Sounds very descriptive. I like the last part, yes our own commitment to Life determines in part what we consider moral.

Nice reference to the immoral part

DD - Love Spliff

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05-22-2003, 06:09 AM	#32
Darth Dane Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Required Posts: 2,349	hmmm perspective, 1st person and 3rd person. So people see the world in the 3rd person, but act upon the world in the 1st person. In a sense, morality translates a 3rd person objective world into a 1st personal real world. In effect I can only know what's objective by an act of moral judgment. So its my personal commitment to a personal "Right to Life" that makes life [im]moral. Sounds very descriptive. I like the last part, yes our own commitment to Life determines in part what we consider moral. Nice reference to the immoral part DD - Love Spliff

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