If a human male went about humping legs like a male dog, it would be INAPPROPRIATE human conduct.
@HPluckrose @iwpoe @DoneReasoning
Theres no objective reason for sex/defecation in private or for seeing virtue in forms of 'mortifying the flesh'
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What makes you think this? You think virtue is irrational?
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You think saying that there's nothing objectively good abt asceticism means there's nothing good?
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I want to know why you think there is nothing objectively good about asceticism. I think it is objectively good.
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Then you have to say what is good about it. Here's what I think is ______________________
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ἄσκησις means “training” or “discipline.” Training & discipline are necessary for all skills and all virtues.
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Virtue is necessary for human flourishing and the good life. Therefore, ἄσκησις is necessary for the good life and happiness.
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Since happiness is the primary good we seek, and ἄσκησις is a necessary condition of reaching it, it is a good.
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Some bad things do result from this denial of our biological nature - blank slate ideas, denial of evolution etc
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And more subtle ones - being neurotic abt sex, feeling too embarrassed to see dr with illness in private zones.
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And reinforcing natural dualism in terms of transcendence narratives - part of ourselves is non-animal - eternal
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