Philosophical Waxings - Tumblr Posts
A lot of people well, frankly everyone says you need to improve yourself for yourself. And suddenly I am not convinced. According to my understanding of the sentiment it is because other will always fail you and use you. But I don't see why I won't fail myself just the as others would fail me.
No, my selfishness can go to hell. I'm going to be better for you, not for myself. And I will have faith in my God.
You can only give what you have. So if you're going to love others you need to love yourself first.
I don't think omniscience is what makes God perfect. No I think God is perfect because he loves without exception or fault. I think even if we knew every single thing in existence it still wouldn't be enough to MAKE us perfect. We'd still need to figure out why any of it matters.
Socrates: that's terrible!
Doe: I can handle it.
Socrates: doesn't mean you need to.
See one of my problems with Kant is this: Yah I should do this because it's my duty, and it's my duty because of [his] logic. But even assuming your logic is correct, since when has logic been a deciding factor in choice?
Our logic does not make decisions for us, we make the decision to follow our logic. We make decisions by ourselves or by the passions we've elected to have power over us. Logic is not an end, it is merely a tool a crucial and unexceptable tool for human life and progression; yet still only a tool not a god.
In my mind any secular philosophical ethical theory becomes hedonism without making a big assumption: human life won't just end with the heat death of the universe. In the end literally none of this will matter if there is not an afterlife. An infinite afterlife.
So is self-love just accepting and loving who you were in the past? Or do I have to some how figure out how to love the unobservable present self?
Can you even observe something that is constantly changing so much?