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Friday, January 4, 2019

the consolation of philosophy

Yar Goldwater made a democrat out of me.  Or rather he shook the republican out of me.  In 68 I was a Peace and Freedom Party guy, though not establishment enough to actually register to vote, but by 72 I was a regular dem and have been one since.  Did that link say that the ad aired only once? 

Legislating morality was precisely the point I was going to get to, but first I wanted to get some kind of definition of morality, but I've found myself going down that rabbit hole alone.  Where do the dawgs think morality comes from?

I would agree with Old Dawg that morality is a thing of the great ape with the gargantuan brain, though I might sprinkle a little of it among the mammals. 

Yes you need a stable society to make a dent in philosophy, you have to have a lot of guys talking about it and have some reading material from former philosophers that you can discuss so that you can get some structure and raise it above the level of the bull session.  There were certainly no women philosophers among the Greeks because they didn't think much of women, and really neither have any men until the last say hundred years.
 

Newborn babies don't have a lot going for them, their brains are still forming and the genes won't have much to work with until the kid gets to four or five years,  At that point the kid begins to love his parents.  He doesn't think well I better be nice to them or they won't feed me supper.  Well maybe that's on his mind a little, but the main thing is he just loves them, and if he can make them happy than he will do that without doing some math on what his effort will bring in return. 

I say that because I loved my parents.  I'm assuming the dawgs loved their parents.  Where do they think that came from?  Are they just not interested in where it came from?  Is it like well there's the sun and probably something causes it, because something always seems to cause something else, but probably it's a complicated affair and other people will have different ideas so why even talk about it?

It takes time to build up a philosophy, it takes a lot of discussion with other people, and maybe it doesn't mean anything in the end (and there is a whole philosophical discussion), but some people believe that the unexamined life is not worth living.

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