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Satisfaction in the knowledge of good and evil?

 
 
Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2011 09:51 am
Is there true satisfaction in the knowledge of good and evil? Considering that what feels real good is satisfaction. But satisfaction of what?

If one is hungry for, then the satisfaction thereof feels good. But is it really good, or is it good in accordance to one’s own nature? Then how is it that one’s own nature, as in all individuals be good?
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2011 03:00 pm
@dpmartin,
dpmartin wrote:

Is there true satisfaction in the knowledge of good and evil? Considering that what feels real good is satisfaction. But satisfaction of what?

If one is hungry for, then the satisfaction thereof feels good. But is it really good, or is it good in accordance to one’s own nature? Then how is it that one’s own nature, as in all individuals be good?


Once again, I think you are butchering definitions. Good itself has a broad scope yet here you are trying to narrow it down and use it to describe something as being good or possibly evil when it shouldn't even be used in that context.

If you are starving, then by all means acquiring food is good. But not "good" in the term of "evil" or "goodness". We could substitute the word good here to something else and you would begin to see that if you tried to interchange them into other sentences, you can clearly see that the word good has two separate meanings.

"If you are starving, then acquiring food is satisfying."

Would you still use the word "satisfying" with the concept of good or evil? No.

The satisfaction comes in the reduction or removal of probably starvation pains. But is the nature of a person, starvation? No it is just a byproduct of lacking sustenance.

dpmartin
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2011 06:20 pm
@Krumple,
Krumple wrote:

dpmartin wrote:

Is there true satisfaction in the knowledge of good and evil? Considering that what feels real good is satisfaction. But satisfaction of what?

If one is hungry for, then the satisfaction thereof feels good. But is it really good, or is it good in accordance to one’s own nature? Then how is it that one’s own nature, as in all individuals be good?


Once again, I think you are butchering definitions. Good itself has a broad scope yet here you are trying to narrow it down and use it to describe something as being good or possibly evil when it shouldn't even be used in that context.

If you are starving, then by all means acquiring food is good. But not "good" in the term of "evil" or "goodness". We could substitute the word good here to something else and you would begin to see that if you tried to interchange them into other sentences, you can clearly see that the word good has two separate meanings.

"If you are starving, then acquiring food is satisfying."

Would you still use the word "satisfying" with the concept of good or evil? No.

The satisfaction comes in the reduction or removal of probably starvation pains. But is the nature of a person, starvation? No it is just a byproduct of lacking sustenance.




Krumpy

thanks for the reply

Sorry dude:
Your assumption is food. The word food is not found here nor any such implication but what you think. Which is a narrowed view of your own. Not necessarily a view of what people hunger for.
Krumple
 
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Reply Mon 21 Mar, 2011 08:13 am
@dpmartin,
dpmartin wrote:
Sorry dude:
Your assumption is food. The word food is not found here nor any such implication but what you think. Which is a narrowed view of your own. Not necessarily a view of what people hunger for.


The same can be said about good or evil. They are subjective to the person who wants to slap the label onto them. There is no objective goodness or evilness. You can attempt to try and claim that there are objective goodness and evilness but they are once again only in terms that reflect the subject.

From the knights perspective, a dragon is evil and thus should be killed. From the dragon's perspective, the knight is evil and should thus be killed. So which point of view is correct? You can replace the knight and dragon with any person or thing and you will begin to see that both want to try and claim that they themselves are on the part of good while their target is on the part of evil. It is foolish to try to carry out the killing of something you perceive to be evil because in that process, you become the evil.
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