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Focus: ethics/morality

As said above by soul mate, ethics is something of a process, it adapts because it has to. Just as us why-questioners adapt ourselves and the world never stops changing as well. I guess i fail at making a tenable distinction between ethics and everything else. To me ethics is a very large part of who we are as individuals. But that also means it, at least insofar as it takes the form of the individual, has limits. Something of a view on morality as a 'cosmic' form of causality perhaps, or at least, not expressly distinct from it. very Hindu it seems. I think that's the problem on which Wittgenstein's Big Book thought experiment hinges: it presupposes the distinction. the objective view of reality is always a representational one. at least from our perspective. and we can't get another one, because we are.. well.. human? whatever that means, we decide both individually and collectively, i guess.
 
i suppose it is simply the point where theory and 'idiosyncratic' practice part ways.

Or perhaps where they interact generatively, as borne of in principle irreconcilable difference when we attempt to 'finish' either project, this difference lying at the heart of why we have ethical projects to undertake in the first place (heh, I think I'm just paraphrasing you now ;)).

ebola
 
I had this thought spring to mind this morning, just perfect for this thread:
It's ok to have an argument with God (he ought to like hearing from us too), but do try to keep things civil

this is a very nice thread. Well it better be %)
 
from the frame of view you present, having a 'merely subtractive principle' is not a problem.

ebola

but its subtractiveness is not a mathematical equation, it functions in terms of what is deemed 'proper','correct'. From that point of view such 'principle' is a hidden reference to the individual and history. Well it's either that, or an infinite residual value of an infinite division. ;)
 
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