[lbo-talk] Emma v Ralph

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What Dennis said. I was just using the word in a broad
sense, to mean what we most ought to do and be,
whatever that is. Incidentally I had a colleague at
Ohio State, Richard Garner, who wrote a book, Against
Moralirt, taking your line, saying that what we ought
to do is to be nice to one another, but "morality" was
a bad thing that actually got in the way of that.
Despite a certain amount of New Ageyness, it was
pretty good. You might like it, Doug. jks

--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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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