There are things one has to be/will be vehemently opposed to and morally disgusted by, or “hate”, if you believe in virtue (or simply stand by anything). 🤷
I appreciate your comment as it provides color and contrast for the embracement of hatred. It is persuading me to trust myself in being opposed to, or not entertaining of, hate & negativity.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
quacky@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Right, that was certainly Aristotle’s interpretation on the concept of magnanimity. Aristotle claimed to have said, "He [who is magnanimous] must be open both in love and in hate, since concealment shows timidity; and care more for the truth than for what people will think; and speak and act openly, since as he despises other men he is outspoken and frank, except when speaking with ironical self-deprecation, as he does to common people… " (I got this quote from Wikipedia entry of Magnaimity who got it from this link www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3At… ) However, Aristotle was born before the greek (then rome) stoics. Some stoics thought that being human was transcending pain-pleasure, love-hate, into a more rational plane of existence. Here’s a quote by Stoic Marcus Aurelius, “… the Magnanimity is the elevation of the intelligent part above the pleasurable or painful sensations of the flesh, and above that poor thing called fame, and death, and all such things.” In conclusion, there are differing views of what virtue means, for Aristotle it means something close to good judgement / wisdom of how to moderate one’s actions while for the stoics it means acting rationally despite hardship and embracing life in its entirety.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is this an LLM?
quacky@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Can you articulate this suspicion? Do I need to speak inauthentic so that you don’t falsely accuse me?
Sidhean@piefed.social 2 hours ago
I like that you responded to "I hate rape" with "this is persuading me to trust myself in being opposed to...hate[ing rape]" Yikes!
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Relativists can’t stand for anything. It’s wise to be “somewhere in the middle”, as black and white thinking is rarely accurate (or productive), but even for that attitude there are exceptions. Discernment is needed.