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RE: Thoughts on whether you can be good and still be yourself

in #thoughts4 years ago

That's the problem I usually see with most of the written moral rules, that through universals they are unable to recognize the particularity and uniqueness of each situation in itself. And since good is a very circumstantial thing, many times people who follow such rules do what is supposedly right, but is actually wrong, and don't do what is supposedly wrong, but may sometimes be right. It takes skill and insight to have that discernment and to know when exceptions are, in fact, right.

Good to know that she helped him.

Cheers.

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exactly.

Cheers to you :)

That's the problem I usually see with most of the written moral rules, that through universals they are unable to recognize the particularity and uniqueness of each situation in itself.

are you perhaps familiar with the tao te ching ?

It gives a more fluid and flexible way of understanding the good, I think.

And isn't following the Tao basically being yourself?

So, I can agree with it.