tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post9202647075981642983..comments2024-03-28T14:36:00.074-07:00Comments on Tek-Gnostics Net: Mask Fashion and the Golden RuleJack Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-72215825682693261572020-05-12T12:17:35.384-07:002020-05-12T12:17:35.384-07:00Nietzsche Max, because as a real man you always cr...Nietzsche Max, because as a real man you always crush thinking with maximum no compromise brutality.Garmrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-79915836298269518232020-05-11T16:12:20.079-07:002020-05-11T16:12:20.079-07:00Garmr... "Just for the taste of it... Enlight...Garmr... "Just for the taste of it... Enlightenment Lite!"Jack Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-45792076120469269882020-05-11T07:21:44.222-07:002020-05-11T07:21:44.222-07:00Do unto others that which is not hatefully to your...Do unto others that which is not hatefully to yourself. Rabbi Hillel to Christ Jesus. To shine forth is key,Dennis/87https://www.blogger.com/profile/03703473570098929681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-59115641363567518902020-05-10T14:47:56.353-07:002020-05-10T14:47:56.353-07:00We could call the competing brand "Liberalism...We could call the competing brand "Liberalism Classic". The version of the golden rule used here says that people must feel compelled, through game theory maybe, to act in their own "enlightened self-interest". The value of everything, including human lives, is judged by how much closer it can get us to the ends decided on by, well, who exactly? Not God, for sure, Ayn Rand wouldn't approve of that.Garmrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-11148666723648401662020-05-10T10:47:28.364-07:002020-05-10T10:47:28.364-07:00Garmr...
It makes sense that “Enlightenment Lite” ...Garmr...<br />It makes sense that “Enlightenment Lite” is a surviving moral compass for modernity. It is a fitting “Brand” for contemporary individual agency.<br /><br />By the way... it is always informative and entertaining to hear from you... Thanks for the comments!Jack Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-46096065068890081392020-05-10T00:38:31.015-07:002020-05-10T00:38:31.015-07:00Christianity was a huge influence on all of these ...Christianity was a huge influence on all of these rich white German dudes. Nietzsche himself had a distinctly Christian panic around the subject of nihilism except he twisted the concept of nihilism as a term of hate against the Christian church for repressing his homosexuality. The Christian were "nihilists" because they stopped him from openly pursuing same sex relationships. Quite sad really. It is obvious why this self loathing turned into rage hits the mark with many conservative thinkers who continue to adore him. Well, that is one interpretation anyway. You need such reading of the runes and entrails when dealing with that man.<br /><br />Kant worked more methodically to create a type of universal morality that could survive atheism. It is that form of "light enlightenment" morality that survives today as the only thing stopping us from resorting to Utilitarianism in public discourse. When people use terms like dignity, universal rights, or autonomy they are often deploying Kant to resist Utilitarian "good of the many" type arguments.Garmrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-85336897214417073182020-05-09T13:51:24.852-07:002020-05-09T13:51:24.852-07:00Only death and taxes are inevitable. Slavery is co...Only death and taxes are inevitable. Slavery is common in the modern world as well. As I said in the post... the golden rule is (merely) a basis for the modern concept of human rights. Per Kant... I An sure that he likewise was deeply influenced by the golden rule. I believe it was Nietzsche who claimed that Kant had theologian blood and was merely a sophisticated apologist for traditional Christian faith...<br />Jack Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-20121303708211601022020-05-09T12:45:41.635-07:002020-05-09T12:45:41.635-07:00Jack, to think that the golden rule leads inevitab...Jack, to think that the golden rule leads inevitably to universal human rights is an assumption we can only make because Kant revolutionized thinking on this issue. The golden rule is a rationalist form of morality because it trusts people to have the good sense to use it to reason out what is right from wrong. The problem is that we can rationalize ourselves to some pretty awful conclusions so Kant's non-awful conclusion that humans are not tools for a purpose but the purpose themselves is historically remarkable.Garmrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-1032716702479091772020-05-09T09:45:34.237-07:002020-05-09T09:45:34.237-07:00Garmr...
From Wikipedia: Possibly the earliest aff...Garmr...<br />From Wikipedia: Possibly the earliest affirmation of the maxim of reciprocity, reflecting the ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at, appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040–1650 BC): "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do." This proverb embodies the do ut des principle. A Late Period (c. 664–323 BC) papyrus contains an early negative affirmation of the Golden Rule: "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another."Jack Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-81237667144572788382020-05-08T14:26:17.736-07:002020-05-08T14:26:17.736-07:00I don't believe that the modern idea of human ...I don't believe that the modern idea of human rights comes from the ancient world but from Immanuel Kant. His ethics share some similarity to the Golden Rule, but he was able to come to the conclusion that humans should never be a means to an end but the end in themselves. Slavery was common in the ancient world with the ever popular Aristotle saying that some people rightly had a "purpose" outside themselves to be slaves. I suppose Plato would say that they embodied the ideal form a slave.Garmrnoreply@blogger.com