I think I disagree. The video ends w Mortimer saying, "Anything you realize is really good for you, you also know at once that it is right for everyone else to have." That is false. I can know an abortion is really good for me while also knowing at once that it is NOT right for everyone else to have an abortion.
Love this conversation. Especially impressed by the roundtable discussion. So wonderful to see people of different backgrounds, inspired by different sets of ideas from different contexts, sharply arguing their positions with passion and rigor, keeping to the topic at hand, and all in good humor. This is my image of heaven. There is something beautifully musical about it, like all the members of an orchestra playing their part on behalf of the whole. Or the various representatives of our metaphorical mental council, working in unison to direct the self. Philosophy at its most grounded, intelligible, and well-meaning.
"A good society is one that confers upon all its individuals the conditions of the good life, by providing them with the goods of fortune beyond their control. So if you are under the obligation to make a good life for yourself, you have a right to anything you need to do so."
Stumbled across these by chance. Only seen the Truth episode and this one so far but it baffles me somewhat how everything he is saying isn't self-evident to everyone, nor how anyone can disagree, so why is he saying it? haha Especially in the truth episode.
Given your naturalism I say you are taking things specific to a species and hence contingent to various degrees, designating them as needs and proceeding to judge them as moral doesn't necessarily make them prescriptive. The reconciliation of the is/ought succeeds unless I deem life absurd and could necessarily infer death. As Camus says a good thing living for also seems a good thing dying for. I ought not die for liberty? Qualification appended
Adler seems to be partially failing to heed his own philosophy. Now me too. Because we are desiring more than that we need. Adler in the discussion desire more peace than he needs! he wants people to stop hurting themselves, while his need is met by merely having people not hurting him. Yet, here he is inviting strangers and tv in the pursuit of his exaggerated need (now want). And it ends up backfiring, and they hurt him, maybe mildly, but they did, when he could just keep it among his true peers.
No man can judge what is good or bad for another really....but if one considers something to be good or bad for himself he shouldn't consider it to be any less for everyone else. And the least good he can do is to not coerce anyone to do the same as he does and the most good he can do is to not prevent anyone from enjoying those same benefits or to make those same benefits available to others to likewise enjoy.
I think I disagree. The video ends w Mortimer saying, "Anything you realize is really good for you, you also know at once that it is right for everyone else to have." That is false. I can know an abortion is really good for me while also knowing at once that it is NOT right for everyone else to have an abortion.
I remember seeing this in 82 at 26, now at 68, to have “stumbled” up on this,,will be quite interesting!!!!!
Love this conversation. Especially impressed by the roundtable discussion. So wonderful to see people of different backgrounds, inspired by different sets of ideas from different contexts, sharply arguing their positions with passion and rigor, keeping to the topic at hand, and all in good humor. This is my image of heaven. There is something beautifully musical about it, like all the members of an orchestra playing their part on behalf of the whole. Or the various representatives of our metaphorical mental council, working in unison to direct the self. Philosophy at its most grounded, intelligible, and well-meaning.
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"A good society is one that confers upon all its individuals the conditions of the good life, by providing them with the goods of fortune beyond their control. So if you are under the obligation to make a good life for yourself, you have a right to anything you need to do so."
Will there be a full upload of the six videos regarding the six great ideas ??
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Its a good chance to relisten and digest 🙏
Nice program
Stumbled across these by chance. Only seen the Truth episode and this one so far but it baffles me somewhat how everything he is saying isn't self-evident to everyone, nor how anyone can disagree, so why is he saying it? haha Especially in the truth episode.
Given your naturalism I say you are taking things specific to a species and hence contingent to various degrees, designating them as needs and proceeding to judge them as moral doesn't necessarily make them prescriptive. The reconciliation of the is/ought succeeds unless I deem life absurd and could necessarily infer death. As Camus says a good thing living for also seems a good thing dying for. I ought not die for liberty? Qualification appended
This man is pretty right on!
As someone searching for a greater knowledge of "goodness" I feel the discussion missuses the word. They speak of "what is good for you".
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Adler seems to be partially failing to heed his own philosophy. Now me too. Because we are desiring more than that we need. Adler in the discussion desire more peace than he needs! he wants people to stop hurting themselves, while his need is met by merely having people not hurting him. Yet, here he is inviting strangers and tv in the pursuit of his exaggerated need (now want). And it ends up backfiring, and they hurt him, maybe mildly, but they did, when he could just keep it among his true peers.
No man can judge what is good or bad for another really....but if one considers something to be good or bad for himself he shouldn't consider it to be any less for everyone else. And the least good he can do is to not coerce anyone to do the same as he does and the most good he can do is to not prevent anyone from enjoying those same benefits or to make those same benefits available to others to likewise enjoy.