Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Sep 11, 2008 16:05
Morality or Slogans? These are the rules of utility or necessity? Is
there a possible naturalization justification?
These are the ten moral rules that all rational persons would want to
be part of the public system that applies to all rational persons. No
one should be surprised by these ten rules. These are all obvious,
simple rules that everyone is supposed to follow regardless of what
their personal goal in life is. Careful attention to these rules shows
that they primarily set limits on what one is morally allowed to do.
They do not provide a positive goal for life. This is done by another
part of the moral system, what I call the moral ideals.
By an evil or a harm, I simply mean something that you would always
avoid for your self or your friends unless you had some reason for not
avoiding it. I define a good or a benefit in a similar way, as
something you would not avoid for yourself and your friends unless you
had some reason to. I claim that, in the sense I have given to the
terms, we all agree on what the goods and evils are, i.e., we all have
the same basic values.
FUNDAMENTAL
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