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It is 2:30 am. I am looking at a paper I wrote on Derrida and realizing I poured myself into it and now I am not sure it is academic because of it. I wrote an ethical critique of Religion using Derrida as a jumping off point.
I have been thinking a lot about ethics. I realized that the only ethic I care strongly enough to scream from the buildings about is freedom. I mean at heart I realize that determinism is probably the actual way things work, but we have to act as though we had freedom and we need to pretend. I have realized that I would burn truth to be ethical and to give freedom to everyone, but that would only result in some imperialism of a new truth: the truth of ethics. God is definately not the answer because He would prevent us from being able to make even the basic ethical choice, to be free or not. Yet without some universal how does one retain freedom for everyone? Justice seems a good answer, but how can we be Just? I like the idea of Justice as fairness to everyone and that seems consistant with freedom, but it is such a slippery slope into tyranny of the majority or minority. I'm just not sure people are good enough for this. I just don't think they want the world to be fair. They cling to God or Communism or Democracy or Truth because it makes them right and people really want to be right.
If you believe in universals and you know what is right, then woe unto those who do not think likewise. -Krister Stehndahl
Smart man, good theologian.
I have been thinking a lot about ethics. I realized that the only ethic I care strongly enough to scream from the buildings about is freedom. I mean at heart I realize that determinism is probably the actual way things work, but we have to act as though we had freedom and we need to pretend. I have realized that I would burn truth to be ethical and to give freedom to everyone, but that would only result in some imperialism of a new truth: the truth of ethics. God is definately not the answer because He would prevent us from being able to make even the basic ethical choice, to be free or not. Yet without some universal how does one retain freedom for everyone? Justice seems a good answer, but how can we be Just? I like the idea of Justice as fairness to everyone and that seems consistant with freedom, but it is such a slippery slope into tyranny of the majority or minority. I'm just not sure people are good enough for this. I just don't think they want the world to be fair. They cling to God or Communism or Democracy or Truth because it makes them right and people really want to be right.
If you believe in universals and you know what is right, then woe unto those who do not think likewise. -Krister Stehndahl
Smart man, good theologian.