If this is too much material for you to read, then just read what you're willing to. When reading and responding to this, do so from the very beginning. I explain why I think good, bad, beauty, horror, tragedy, etc. can only be emotions (feelings/perceptions/value judgments). — TranscendedRealms
I explain why I think good, bad, beauty, horror, tragedy, etc. can only be emotions — TranscendedRealms
Good and bad are nothing more than value judgments, and value judgments are actual things. They're emotions. — TranscendedRealms
The direkt link to emotion maybe original. But we live in modern times. The objective meaning has to reproduce itself in a much more abstract way over different media.I didn't understand what you said. Could you clarify? — TranscendedRealms
It would seem to me to be a sad thing if people just pursued those things that made them feel good. — Sam26
So what would guide people's behaviour if not making them feel good, doing what's right? — Isaac
It may not feel good to jump into ice cold water to save another person's life, but you do it in spite of how it makes you feel. — Sam26
Are you suggesting that someone who just jumped into ice cold water to save another person's life mightn't feel at all good about themselves? — Isaac
I think he's suggesting they'd feel rather cold. — unenlightened
We should instead see it as a good or beautiful thing he gets locked up in prison. Or, we could see it as a good or beautiful thing that he's torturing those living things. Either way, we're getting beauty and goodness out of it. — TranscendedRealms
Hence the example does not demonstrate that "doing the right thing has nothing to do with how you feel". — Isaac
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