January 8th 2019
There are, daily, things I'd like to do and should do because they have a purpose greater than feeding the needs and paying the mortgage. There are also, daily, states of mind that are light and hopeful and others that are dark, and full of regret and disappointment. It would be neat to say Sparrow's unrelenting focus on- and promotion of- visitations of the better of these guides my choices, but it wouldn't be true. I can't do what she does, which is act always in accordance with her construction of her best self. I just act like an idiot quite a lot, and usually I know when I'm doing it. In other words, I know I shouldn't do it, but I do it anyway, from moral weakness or temperamental laziness.
So, Sparrow has a Categorical Imperative guiding her every deed, and I'm akratic: Kant, with his duty, and Aristotle with his emotion, the great diametric duelists (not dualists, thankfully) of moral thought, represented respectively.
Sparrow is clearly the better human being of the two of us, so that's that argument settled.
There are, daily, things I'd like to do and should do because they have a purpose greater than feeding the needs and paying the mortgage. There are also, daily, states of mind that are light and hopeful and others that are dark, and full of regret and disappointment. It would be neat to say Sparrow's unrelenting focus on- and promotion of- visitations of the better of these guides my choices, but it wouldn't be true. I can't do what she does, which is act always in accordance with her construction of her best self. I just act like an idiot quite a lot, and usually I know when I'm doing it. In other words, I know I shouldn't do it, but I do it anyway, from moral weakness or temperamental laziness.
So, Sparrow has a Categorical Imperative guiding her every deed, and I'm akratic: Kant, with his duty, and Aristotle with his emotion, the great diametric duelists (not dualists, thankfully) of moral thought, represented respectively.
Sparrow is clearly the better human being of the two of us, so that's that argument settled.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/02/15/make-your-own-rules/
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