Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Moral-Realist Conception of "Karmic Seeds"

Now, to digress from my investigation of Love for a bit.

How does the idea of "Karmic Seeds" figure into my moral-realist theory of "Moral Man"?

Now, I understand that "What comes around MAY NOT/ DOES NOT go around." So from my moral-realist perspective, what is to prevent us from doing wrong and more importantly, what is the impetus for us to do good?

Our actions, irregardless of the potentiality of consequential payback, do have very real consequences. Either upon ourselves or the object of which we have enacted our will and actions upon.

Now, even if we remove the realm of consequential and reactionary action by external agents, our actions affect ourselves at the end of the day. And this is a very real effect.

Why, you ask? This is because we will associate mental perceptions and expectations with particular action patterns incorrectly and as this repeats itself, it will be reinforced over time.

As a result, this is equivalent to self-blindfolding and this impedes our ability to reach the understanding of Moral Man.

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