I am not convinced that people, generally, are yet good at talking about this.
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yeah, this is why Spock Morality is dumb. reason cannot decide between courses of action; you can reason all the way to "this course of action will kill me and my entire species" but without an emotional/aesthetic judgment there's nothing to make that option better or worse
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I think this is resting on bad definitions of "reason" and "emotion/aesthetics".
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maybe! but i would have to suspect that definitions of "reason" and "emotion/aesthetics" that it couldn't rest on would be less "good" and more "purpose-developed jargon that places reason in a supreme position in a mere obscure technical sense"
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Opposite way around, IMHO: people developed a clean separation between the two in order to "place reason (in a mere technical sense) in a supreme position". Proper definitions should let us avoid the supposed dichotomy.
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well, when you find a proper definition of reason that lets it autonomously make decisions without reliance on irrational "because i said so" faculties like axioms, emotions, value/utility functions, and aesthetics, you @ me
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Who says emotions, values, and aesthetics are irrational?
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idk, everybody i guess? sounds like you have some real good definitions in mind!
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Everybody is wrong and I will fucking prove it.
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do it bish
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