[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law

 
<<There  is
a reason the Ten Commandments are called  commandments>> 
Just an aside here...... the Hebrew  word that is translated into English as 
"commandments" also means "good deeds",  more or less.  I mowed my neighbors 
lawn when her leg was broken;   that was a mitzvah (good thing, also 
commandment).  In Judaism people are  expected/required by their Creator to 
strive to do 
the right things.  The  Ten "commandments" are a breakdown of what that means 
in some fairly specific  categories for those who are sloshing around in the 
mud looking for what "the  right thing" looks like. 
Julie Krueger 



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Date: 7/31/05 4:24:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time  From: _aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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> From: Phil Enns  <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 7/31/2005 4:26:36 PM
>  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law
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> Andy Amago  wrote:
>
> "Therefore, it's the moral law that keeps society  functioning, not the,
> still alleged, inner moral law."
>
>  Where does this moral, or external, law come from?  The obvious
>  paragraph for the Yanks begins with "We hold these truths to be
>  self-evident ..."  If an inner moral law is only alleged, then the  rest
> of the paragraph, and in fact the notion of law, is  problematic.
>
>


Experience can teach us what works and  what doesn't.  That which works over
time to enhance happiness becomes a  self evident truth.  For example, way
back in the time of Moses sexual  rights were sorted out in the society's
best interests.  Likewise random  killing could not be tolerated.  There is
a reason the Ten Commandments  are called commandments, not appeals to an
inner sense of what's good.   I think none of the Declaration of
Independence is about morality.  Only  about creating a climate that would
be conducive to the greater good of white  men.


Andy Amago


> Sincerely,
>
> Phil  Enns
> Toronto, ON
>
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