to the extent that we seek privacy for sex & defecation & mean other animals when we say 'animals.'
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And talk of overcoming our carnal desires in all sorts of contexts. And have ideas of pure spiritual parts.
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We have a distaste for biological needs & feel shame. We relate failures to do this to 'behaving like animals.'
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This is what I mean by an instinct to deny that we are mammals - to suppress & shame the 'animalistic' bits.
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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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Replying to @EveKeneinan @DoneReasoning
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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They are certainly virtues. I need to sleep. I am going now.
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