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To: Jamestown1630

We have what is and we have what ought to be.

What is = ontology. For example: Life exists on earth.

What ought to be = moral law. For example: People should treat each other with kindness.

Then we have phenomenology, which is the subjective experience. This is what you emphasize.


844 posted on 02/15/2018 7:54:14 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

If I emphasize it, it’s because the entire ‘world’ is the result of innumerable subjective experiences.

We may be possessed of that ‘Little Spark of Celestial Fire’; but moral systems themselves result largely from a consensus among subjective ‘experiencers’.

We find it good to be kind because we have experienced unkindness, and unkindness sucks.


857 posted on 02/15/2018 8:30:39 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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