January 10, 2009

Morality

mills:

When I say pure morality is unconcerned with ends, I mean it is concerned only with means, with the conduct of the individual. The state of the world is never within your control; only your behavior is. A pure moral system -which arbitrates your relationship with the world- cannot depend at all on variables beyond your control or it is worthless, contingent, ungoverning. Thus pure morality has little to say about justice or peace or other political concepts involving the group; rather, justice and peace emerge from aggregated individual morality.

Read it entirely; it’s good.

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    interesting read. I’m also...exactly he’s trying
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    entirely; it’s good.
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    wonderful piece on...which everybody should read. It has
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    different point of view, but you make...amazingly elegant argument. i actually had to read...
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    think about, here. Normally...cogent response,...post this...
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