'the last opinion in search of the truth of past and future is called the JUDGEMENT.'
-Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan - Chap VII: Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse"
We know who a judge is and what he does - a neutral party appointed to arbitrate the rights and wrongs of certain disputable issues. This requires him/her to form an opinion. Hence, passing judgements necessarily requires an opinionated person.
A person, when labelled "quick to judge", is often in the derogatory sense. Isn't he/she just a person who is able to form an opinion quickly? What then happens when we call someone "judgemental"? Does he/she judge based on a certain set of (moral?) values known only to him/her? Or is there a universal set of rules/laws/regulations? So when a person has high, strict and moral values, he/she is branded judgemental?! So being judgemental is good! ? Then again, why do we hate judgemental people?
When a person is thought of as a person who won't judge people or friends, does it simply mean not forming an opinion? Or does it mean that the person has got low/loose moral values? What if this person actually does form opinions, but keeps those opinions to him/herself? - "No comments" will then mean that a person doesn't judge but has got high moral values?
Seems like fine lines again, between judging, opinionated, judgemental and quick-to-judge.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Sunday, September 03, 2006
life is - eudaimonia?
What is life?
Life is freedom?
What is freedom?
Freedom is the ability to do whatever we would like to do, or feel like doing? (within lawful limits of course)
Why do we like to do the things we like to do, and do the things we feel like doing?
We do the things we like to do and feel like doing in an attempt to achieve an aim or an ultimate purpose?
What is this aim or purpose?
We aim to achieve happiness? To do whatever makes us happy? Because we are happy when we can do the things we like to do isn't it?
What makes us happy then?
I don't know - Many people don't know? Happiness works differently for different people? Definitions of happiness changes with time and circumstances? We know how humans are greedy and are never satisfied? After achieving something, they don't stay happy for too long? Very soon, they yearn for something else? Yearn for that elusive something else that they think will make them happy? Only to find that they are not satisfied? Will we ever be satisfied?
How will we ever be satisfied?
We will be satisfied when we learn how to come to terms with ourselves?
Does coming to terms with ourselves a function of age or maturity, when dreams die and ambitions wane? Does coming to terms with ourselves equate to the lack of drive and motivations? Will the lack of drive and motivations lead to the end of improvements? Or is this being realistic instead of mature? Maybe it's pessimism? Will we ever be clear about what the differences are? Are the differences, if they exist, even important? They are unimportant if we can come to terms with ourselves isn't it? We are going around in circles aren't we?
EUDAIMONIA???
Life is freedom?
What is freedom?
Freedom is the ability to do whatever we would like to do, or feel like doing? (within lawful limits of course)
Why do we like to do the things we like to do, and do the things we feel like doing?
We do the things we like to do and feel like doing in an attempt to achieve an aim or an ultimate purpose?
What is this aim or purpose?
We aim to achieve happiness? To do whatever makes us happy? Because we are happy when we can do the things we like to do isn't it?
What makes us happy then?
I don't know - Many people don't know? Happiness works differently for different people? Definitions of happiness changes with time and circumstances? We know how humans are greedy and are never satisfied? After achieving something, they don't stay happy for too long? Very soon, they yearn for something else? Yearn for that elusive something else that they think will make them happy? Only to find that they are not satisfied? Will we ever be satisfied?
How will we ever be satisfied?
We will be satisfied when we learn how to come to terms with ourselves?
Does coming to terms with ourselves a function of age or maturity, when dreams die and ambitions wane? Does coming to terms with ourselves equate to the lack of drive and motivations? Will the lack of drive and motivations lead to the end of improvements? Or is this being realistic instead of mature? Maybe it's pessimism? Will we ever be clear about what the differences are? Are the differences, if they exist, even important? They are unimportant if we can come to terms with ourselves isn't it? We are going around in circles aren't we?
EUDAIMONIA???
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