Thursday, November 19, 2009

Our Deepest (unit of?) value...


Our new topic/question: Is anything valueless/valuable?

I got the idea for today's thought experiment from the second paragraph of [this] very interesting article. Here are our results thus far...

 Pleasure/Good Feeling
 Safety/Avoidance of Fear
 Happiness/Comfort
 Companionship/Understanding
 Living in Positive Memories of the Past
 Purpose/A Reason for Being
 Liberty of Thoughts and Actions
 Being Accepted into Something Bigger

What a fantastic list! Feel free to post a comment and add to or revise this list...

IN TWO WEEKS we will broach the challenging question of whether any/all values are intrinsic or extrinsic. Read more [here].

1 comment:

Dylan "Bookmark" said...

I'm praying we go over the intrinsic/extrinsic topic when we come back, I looked at the link you sent us and went into mental overload relatively quickly.