Freedom And Purpose An Interpretation of the Psychology of Spinoza
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Choice is not a balancing of two possible courses and the ultimate appropriation of that one which commends itself to our fancy. Ethical purpose concerns only the good. Evil for it has no existence. The basic question is not, Shall we do this or that? but, How shall we do this? The differ- ence between the two theories of moral conduct is the difference between the healthy man's and the sick man's attitude to food; one eats with evident relish ; the other eats even obnoxious food, in order to e...lude the grip of death. That is to say, the purport of action is not a choice between good and evil in the first in- stance, but an affirmation of the fundamental purpose. 86 We are taught to value motives not by the comparative strength of their reactions, but by their relation to the general good of the system. For this reason the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils should be accepted, because eventually the lesser evil will really prove to be a good, while the lesser good, by itself a valuable emotion, is, compared with its competitor, distinctly inferior as a means for developing the powers of body and mind.
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Choice is not a balancing of two possible courses and the ultimate appropriation of that one which commends itself to our fancy. Ethical purpose concerns only the good. Evil for it has no existence. The basic question is not, Shall we do this or that? but, How shall we do this? The differ- ence between the two theories of moral conduct is the difference between the healthy man's and the sick man's attitude to food; one eats with evident relish ; the other eats even obnoxious food, in order to e...lude the grip of death. That is to say, the purport of action is not a choice between good and evil in the first in- stance, but an affirmation of the fundamental purpose. 86 We are taught to value motives not by the comparative strength of their reactions, but by their relation to the general good of the system. For this reason the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils should be accepted, because eventually the lesser evil will really prove to be a good, while the lesser good, by itself a valuable emotion, is, compared with its competitor, distinctly inferior as a means for developing the powers of body and mind.
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