So, I’ve been chatting with my buddies lately, and it’s turned into a bunch of debates about right and wrong. I think I have a pretty solid moral compass, I’m not bragging haha, but most people I know can’t really explain why something’s right or wrong without getting all circular or contradicting themselves.
So, how do you figure out what to do? No judgment, just curious. I’ll share my thoughts below.
Thanks!
Golden Mean - a famous philosphy by Aristotle has been really been big part of my adult life. It’s just incredibly handy and applicable to any situation.
We even see this idea expressed in contemporary sciences and sociology concepts like economic diminishing returns etc. and it really applies to everything. The best parts of life are trully in the middle and if you believe in only one life focusing on extremes is unlikely to get you anywhere interesting unless you’re very lucky/unlucky.
I really recommend “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question” by Michael Schur who is one of the creators of The Good Place and he evaluates many popular ethics and world model views from a contemporary point of view and its really well done if you’re interested in practical ethics.
Can you elaborate? The “Golden Mean Fallacy” is literally the name of a logical fallacy, though I don’t you meant it that way. Maybe a “things are more complicated than just black or white” kind of thing?