[lbo-talk] Emma v Ralph

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Tue Mar 23 09:27:42 PST 2004



> How is morality - a set of behavioral prescriptions - the same as
> kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and love? The latter can be read as
> forms of erotic feeling, which are often lacking in moralists.
>
> Doug

We're getting stuck on a word -- morality -- which is most often used by those who seek not to liberate human feeling and help us evolve, but to control and use others for personal gain. I think the word is nearly useless now, given the amount of ideology weighing it down. I suppose kindness, etc., flows from our erotic sides, to a degree certainly, but I sense no disconnection from the cerebral and logical sides. In other words, we're hard wired for this, and the challenge is to fully realize this essential part of ourselves.

DP



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