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Post by Elizabeth on Dec 4, 2017 9:15:14 GMT
...and how do you know?
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Post by ZeroInteruppt on Jan 14, 2018 3:14:22 GMT
I'm reading all the posts and articles but for me the answer is simply this. Does what you do leave those around you better? If yes than it's good. Does it subtract from the world around you in some way? Then it's bad. Everything else is minutiae
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Post by Polaris on Jan 26, 2018 18:00:25 GMT
what is good is what you feel proud when people see you do it, and what is bad is what you feel ashamed when people see you do it. you feel it rather than define it
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Post by dalibor on Jan 27, 2018 5:30:59 GMT
I'm mostly interested in personal character and how it translates to inter-personal relations. It seems that there are indeed more malicious types of characters, and those other, more noble ones.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 27, 2018 5:55:20 GMT
I'm mostly interested in personal character and how it translates to inter-personal relations. It seems that there are indeed more malicious types of characters, and those other, more noble ones. Any idea why the malicious types are more?
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Post by Polaris on Jan 27, 2018 16:27:48 GMT
you cannot define good unless you define bad....like light and dark, night and day
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 22:19:19 GMT
you cannot define good unless you define bad....like light and dark, night and day But practically it is also impossible. 'If to define good we need to define bad', this means: 'to define bad we need to define good'... a circle. No, there must be not two, but three not identical substances: a, b and c. A must be similar to B, and differs to C. If we deal with sentences, or judgements, or propositions: Sentence A musb be similar to B, but differs from C. So, for defining 'good', 'bad' and 'ugly'... oops!... but, no - it is... - we need to find three not identical things or complex substances such that A, B and C, and A is similar to B, but differs from C. For example, let A is feeding fishes; let B is feeding pets and C is feeding poor ones. Well, it is not very good example, because: even A similar to B; A differs to C. A similar to B and C, and A similar to C. ... Result: 'If you are feeding fishes, and wanting make something good - feed animals; if you want to make something bad - feed poor ones. B - good, C - bad.
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Post by oluoch06 on Feb 3, 2018 6:32:00 GMT
Good and bad is a matter of context. What's good in one situation may not be good in another. A dosage of medicine is good for a patient and is bad for healthy person. If the disease is advanced it is good to prescribe a stronger dosage and bad to proscribe a mild one. To know what's is good and bad the truth should be our guide. If it is true one is guilty then they should face the consequences as defined by law.
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 3, 2018 6:44:51 GMT
Good and bad is a matter of context. What's good in one situation may not be good in another. A dosage of medicine is good for a patient and is bad for healthy person. If the disease is advanced it is good to prescribe a stronger dosage and bad to proscribe a mild one. To know what's is good and bad the truth should be our guide. If it is true one is guilty then they should face the consequences as defined by law. Yes, I agree with this.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 18:36:27 GMT
Good and bad is a matter of context. What's good in one situation may not be good in another. A dosage of medicine is good for a patient and is bad for healthy person. If the disease is advanced it is good to prescribe a stronger dosage and bad to proscribe a mild one. To know what's is good and bad the truth should be our guide. If it is true one is guilty then they should face the consequences as defined by law. Let's imagine there's two identical worlds. In the first one it's allowed to kill children and in the second - is not. If you say then: it is possible, then such things as 'good' and 'bad' don't exist and they will be just nothing. But if you say that there is 'good' and 'bad', then one of this worlds must be 'good'. When you say that 'it depends' it automatically means that contexts are separated one from another. Are they? Every context links with the other. Our world is the one world.
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Post by Festtt on Feb 6, 2018 20:59:11 GMT
There are no such things as objective good and bad to our knowledge. Good and bad can only really be used in relation to a goal as far as I can think. So you first establish the goal and then you can tell if something is good or bad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 22:12:59 GMT
There are no such things as objective good and bad to our knowledge. Good and bad can only really be used in relation to a goal as far as I can think. So you first establish the goal and then you can tell if something is good or bad. ... Therefore, if we suppose that all the goals lead to one purpose, than we will apply that there's objective good and bad. Shrug
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Post by Festtt on Feb 7, 2018 8:08:20 GMT
There are no such things as objective good and bad to our knowledge. Good and bad can only really be used in relation to a goal as far as I can think. So you first establish the goal and then you can tell if something is good or bad. ... Therefore, if we suppose that all the goals lead to one purpose, than we will apply that there's objective good and bad. If you think there's one purpose then you can decipher what's good and bad in relation to said purpose. This doesn't mean we can find truly objective good and bad though, still just good and bad in relation to a goal.
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 7, 2018 8:15:06 GMT
... Therefore, if we suppose that all the goals lead to one purpose, than we will apply that there's objective good and bad. If you think there's one purpose then you can decipher what's good and bad in relation to said purpose. This doesn't mean we can find truly objective good and bad though, still just good and bad in relation to a goal. Do you think a group of people...let's say at least 20 people...are able to decipher and agree on what is good and what is bad?
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Post by Festtt on Feb 7, 2018 8:29:45 GMT
If you think there's one purpose then you can decipher what's good and bad in relation to said purpose. This doesn't mean we can find truly objective good and bad though, still just good and bad in relation to a goal. Do you think a group of people...let's say at least 20 people...are able to decipher and agree on what is good and what is bad? Yes. If they agree on a goal then most definitely. And if they're logical they'll agree in more detail cause they'll reach the same conclusions if they communicate. For example lets say 20 members of a village all agree on the goal of increasing the village's prosperity. It's easy to imagine they'd agree it's good to build strong functional buildings, grow crops, teach the young etc. Now this can be applied in greater context than a village ofc. But if two people don't agree on the goal, it doesn't make much sense for them to talk about what is good and what is bad therefore I think establishing the goal first is beneficial.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 9:31:19 GMT
Do you think a group of people...let's say at least 20 people...are able to decipher and agree on what is good and what is bad? Yes. If they agree on a goal then most definitely. And if they're logical they'll agree in more detail cause they'll reach the same conclusions if they communicate. For example lets say 20 members of a village all agree on the goal of increasing the village's prosperity. It's easy to imagine they'd agree it's good to build strong functional buildings, grow crops, teach the young etc. Now this can be applied in greater context than a village ofc. But if two people don't agree on the goal, it doesn't make much sense for them to talk about what is good and what is bad therefore I think establishing the goal first is beneficial.
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