I believe that we have lost our sense of the importance of
morality because we have lost our bearing on what ethics is
all about. Stephen Hawking has said that it is every
physicist's dream to some day discover one law of nature that
will ultimately explain absolutely everything, a law so simple
that it could be printed on a T-shirt, a bumper sticker, or a
business card. In philosophy, we sometimes pursue similar
dreams. It would be wonderful if we could come up with a
single characterization of ethics sufficient to explain what it's
really all about, and yet also simple enough for a T-shirt, a
bumper sticker, or a business card.
Let me give it a try. Ethics is all about:
SPIRITUALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE
IN SOCIALLY HARMONIOUS
RELATIONSHIPS
-as excerpted from Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General
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The Golden Rule comes pretty darn close.
ReplyDeleteAnother would be "Love your neighbor as yourself" with "love" defined as "a conscious act of the will that seeks the other's highest good". This defines love toward others but it also works great for what it means to love yourself.
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