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Comment on The ethics of selfishness by martin

martin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:27:30 +0000

Basing moral choices on selfishness is what ethical egoism means. Corporations are structured so as to be selfish, it’s in their makeup, and it has some consequences that we should recognise and deal with. Just expecting some sort of invisible hand to make it right isn’t going to work.

Comment on The ethics of selfishness by William Jameson

William Jameson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:47:54 +0000

So considering this article, ethics of selfishness may be called an Ethical Egoism?

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Comment on The ethics of altruism by Benscoter

Benscoter — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:22:12 +0000

I love it, you’re perfectly right !

Comment on The connection between health, fat, and exercise by Fanny Waist Pack

Fanny Waist Pack — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:54:40 +0000

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Comment on A letter from Peachy by Elvie Battino

Elvie Battino — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:41:59 +0000

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Comment on A Cosmologigram by martin

martin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:53:27 +0000

I think I should have rephrased that last paragraph. (I agree with you in terms of language [love is a construction, an idea] but not in terms of experience. Our experience of love is as the transcendence of “I”, as the all-her-now-me’s together). In other words that last paragraph is intended to convey the idea of love as those beautiful and similar moments.

And, thanks, btw

Comment on A Cosmologigram by Bios

Bios — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:35:09 +0000

My idea of ‘me’ is ‘only’ what I have remembered. Yes, I can agree with that : ‘me’ is my own construction, my experience. At first I then wrote ” I can’t make the leap to your last contention – “that’s what love is” -” but I reread it and yes, perhaps you are right – love IS my own construction, and so is hate, and boredom etc… Have I missed some subtlety or is your statement something obvious put into philosophical language ? (There’s a word for this but I can’t track it down in my Thesaurus.) … with love…B

Comment on A Cosmologigram by martin

martin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:53:21 +0000

I've been asked to put all this in simpler form. So, well, maybe this is not just simpler but better - here goes:

The only reality is here, and now, and me. All else is supposition and theory that we construct to make sense of the here-now-me. That's useful, it's how we make sense of the world, but it's not the world itself just a model.

Ok, so all these here-now-me's, they're all different. Or rather, there's only one of them in my subjectivity but I remember others, assume the existence of others in the future, and I'm told of others from other points of view. In fact I can see and empathize with the here-now-me's around me. They seem similar, from the outside. So why call one chain of here-now-me memories "I" and all the others not-I?

From which I'd like to argue that the idea of identity doesn't make much sense in real reality, it's only useful in the constructed model we build. All those here-now-me instants have a lot in common. That's what experience is, that's what love is, those all so beautiful and similar moments.

Comment on About by martin

martin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:09:23 +0000

Martin

Comment on About by Cava

Cava — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:19:19 +0000

What is your name?

Comment on John Howard and refugee policy by Tam Nguyen

Tam Nguyen — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:59:11 +0000

I am writing the essay for University and refer to this article “John Howard and refugee policy” posted in law, society on April 18, 2006.

Please let me know the name of the author for referencing purpose.

Many thanks,

Tam

Comment on The psychology of tribes by Social Networks and Zombie Hordes: Zombie Psychology Pt. 2 | The Psychology of Wellbeing

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:51:27 +0000

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Comment on About by sirensongs

sirensongs — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:43:44 +0000

Thanks for the link! Greetings from Chennai.

Comment on A Cosmologigram by martin

martin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:54:20 +0000

Smeary cats are less than entirely cute, I have to think. Perhaps it’s all about my vision getting blurry. Myopia as metaphysics.

Hope you’re well, Martin. I see you’re back from what looked like a good time in China

Comment on A Cosmologigram by martin ewen

martin ewen — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:32:22 +0000

I’m not sure if your cat is cute or not, that would depend on how you coped with the whole ‘smear’ thing but it seems to me via my cumulative reality and I’m sure it’s not sinister but it appears that the internet exists primarily to collate pictures of kittens or cats and I commend you on your complicated picture.

Comment on Calling out the fey by martin

martin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:25:38 +0000

Thanks Kit and Jon, that makes me happy.

To answer “And so?” is probably impossible as a generality. I’ve been thinking of examples, though, and I plan to modify this page to include them. As for your question about sanity, “yes”, especially since the modern world has a plague of emotional vampires.

Comment on Calling out the fey by Kit @ Dreamscribe

Kit @ Dreamscribe — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:16:35 +0000

That wasn’t dull… we just read the two posts aloud. Totally absorbed. And then we just had a one (?) hour really good discussion about it all. Not obscure. Not dull. Beautifully expressed ideas. Our only question would be, “And so? What are these actions provoked by passionate caring… and how do you go about sustaining that level of immersion in the Life of the great unwashed?” Or, “Do you only passionately care about people you encounter (and therefore going bush on a regular basis holds definite appeal for the maintenance of sanity)?” In other words, “What next?” K&J

Comment on Calling out the fey by martin

martin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:00:09 +0000

Re-reading this I feel I’ve got caught up in the logic and become obscure and dull.

I’ll see if I can come up with a more engaging way to explore the idea.

Comment on About by Rose

Rose — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:17:24 +0000

You are a wonderful writer. It was lovely seeing you the other night. Send me an email sometime.