Triangle
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Post by Triangle on Jun 10, 2021 16:13:00 GMT
There is any kind of moral sensual gratification? So, Roger Scruton says in Desire that there is a kind of regency of human sexuality, and that regency is moral. Simply, that the moral conducts gratification.
But what about food and sensual pleasures in general? Can it be conducted by any moral ground? Eat fast food or have very expensive clothes is morally justified?
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Post by joustos on Jun 10, 2021 21:42:56 GMT
There is any kind of moral sensual gratification? So, Roger Scruton says in Desire that there is a kind of regency of human sexuality, and that regency is moral. Simply, that the moral conducts gratification. But what about food and sensual pleasures in general? Can it be conducted by any moral ground? Eat fast food or have very expensive clothes is morally justified? You are wandering whether any pleasure or any gratification is on a moral ground or can be justified by any moral {or moral law}. WHY? WHY? Obviously because, like most of us, you were infected, since early childhood, by the idea [your idea/feeling] that any pleasure is wrong. It could have started in any simple situation, such as being repremended for eating too much ice cream, which you enjoyed so much. Then a religious avalange may have overwhelmed your mind, which had not differentiated yet "what is bad for you", what is harmful to others, and what is immoral. Indeed, what is immoral? Oh yes, what is pleasurable is immoral... and that closes any discussion. But consider: It is possible that any human action, and any feeling, is in itself neither moral nor immoral,and that what we call immoral is, according to the very meaning of this word, contrary to "mores" (certain customs or traditions or ideologies in our society). Unless you can establish a "morality" on some solid, rational, and independent ground, and judge accordingly, don't spoil your life trying to justify its ways by a spurious, environmental morality which others invented. We live in a world full of myths of all kinds, which Reason must face and dissolve. |
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Post by Triangle on Jun 10, 2021 21:54:37 GMT
Okay!
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Post by xxxxxxxxx on Jun 15, 2021 0:16:44 GMT
There is any kind of moral sensual gratification? So, Roger Scruton says in Desire that there is a kind of regency of human sexuality, and that regency is moral. Simply, that the moral conducts gratification. But what about food and sensual pleasures in general? Can it be conducted by any moral ground? Eat fast food or have very expensive clothes is morally justified? Any extreme where sensual gratification alone exists is in contrary to the human soul given sensual gratification is based upon the love of that which passes. A soul which grows attached to that which passes in itself will pass and suffer a second death of being burned and torn apart perpetually given it is attached to that which is relative and changing. Relativity and change is divergence of phenomenon, burning/tearing apart is this divergence at its root form. This is assuming the soul is immortal given it is repetition of actions thus is a loop. |
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