danas10 wrote:tycho wrote:danas10 wrote:tycho wrote:Marriage, seems to be a weak attempt at love and that it has the tendency to destroy what it wishes to promote. In the first place it's predicated on the brevity of life yet it apparently shortens life further. Marriage is made of a decadent psychology.
Isn't this conclusion flawed especially because it is being made by an "I" that sees itself in totality? How much of "universal marriage" have you encountered to arrive here?
ps...am just trying to understand and yes, i (non universal) disagree with your conclusion
Lol. I'm seeing some humor here. Let me see how to make myself clear. As for 'universal marriage' I have the picture of Rev. Moon's weddings ...
Mhhh...I am known to have the least humor in my bones but I will let you be. I was thinking of universal diversity. So, go ahead and make yourself clear otherwise you are free to ignore my question
To make myself clear I'll start thus:
1. I have a problem. Despite being married, I have a propensity for affairs and I realize that the resultant is harmful to me and others
2. Change of behavior has something to do with my mind and thus it follows that to be responsible for action I need a philosophy of mind whose test is adaptive success
3. Because I'm working in a social context and ecosystems then whatever philosophy of mind I need must involve other minds and their subjectivity
4. Any patterns and characteristics common across subjective instances are objective values
5. Objective values across ecosystems imply universal values for practical purposes, and form the 'I' that's immutable. For example 'universal diversity'
6. Ethics is to be based on these objective and universal values such that what is good is what follows these principles and if I may preempt the ethical position then I dare say it's 'mutualist'
These are basically the basic assumptions of the philosophical system I'm elucidating.