Who's right in your opinion? Modern “you are all beautiful individuals”-ideology or Socrates?
“There's no need to justify or defend your values any more than there is a need to justify or defend your favourite flavour of ice cream. My favourite ice cream is maple walnut. Why? I don't know. My taste buds just prefer it. Do I have to justify it? If someone else prefers vanilla, does that mean their tastebuds are 'right' and mine are 'wrong'? Obviously not! And it's exactly the same with values. Someone else may have different values from yours, but that doesn't mean that theirs are better or worse - it just means they value different things”.
- Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, p. 102-103
"it is actually is the greatest good for a human being to get into discussion, every day, about goodness and the other subjects you hear me talking and examining myself and others about" "for a human being a life without examination is actually not worth living."
Are our values just given?
Are our values just given?
Are our values just given?
Who's right in your opinion? Modern “you are all beautiful individuals”-ideology or Socrates?
“There's no need to justify or defend your values any more than there is a need to justify or defend your favourite flavour of ice cream. My favourite ice cream is maple walnut. Why? I don't know. My taste buds just prefer it. Do I have to justify it? If someone else prefers vanilla, does that mean their tastebuds are 'right' and mine are 'wrong'? Obviously not! And it's exactly the same with values. Someone else may have different values from yours, but that doesn't mean that theirs are better or worse - it just means they value different things”.
- Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, p. 102-103
"it is actually is the greatest good for a human being to get into discussion, every day, about goodness and the other subjects you hear me talking and examining myself and others about" "for a human being a life without examination is actually not worth living."
- Socrates in Plato, Apology 38a