Good, you mentioned TRUST (most important). Famous Slavoj Žižek has done psychoanalysis in The Parallax View: Anglo/Japanese Masters of HYPOCRISY (appear to what they are not - caring/moral)
Thank you for your comment. Glad you've been enjoying the videos. It's not always a good idea doing UA-cam videos on politics but I would love to do political philosophy at some point :)
there's another aspect of lying that is not meantioned in the video: by lying over small things just to be polite and avoid "pain" we more and more normalize lying to a point, where we unconsciously deceive each other and ourself up to a point where we no longer are able to differentiate between truth/reality and lies. our perceiption of reality is influenced by our exchange of information with each other. it also makes communication more and more challenging since language is used to avoid pain rather than the exchange of information. (this is often pronounced in communication between autistic and allistic people.) You can even go as far as saying that downplaying lying or even demand lying just to protect our emotions can be a danger to our species' survival since we need to have a clear picture of how things actually are despite our indiviual emotional sensitivities..
Absolutely! So it depends on whether the overall or aggregate happiness is increased. Do you think Bentham might be off the hook here because, practically speaking, the unhappiness caused by betrayal would almost always outweigh any happiness gained?
Love your videos, great explanation
Thank you!
Good, you mentioned TRUST (most important). Famous Slavoj Žižek has done psychoanalysis in The Parallax View: Anglo/Japanese Masters of HYPOCRISY (appear to what they are not - caring/moral)
I've been enjoying your talks since two days. How about explaining political happenings through the lence of morality?
Thank you for your comment. Glad you've been enjoying the videos. It's not always a good idea doing UA-cam videos on politics but I would love to do political philosophy at some point :)
there's another aspect of lying that is not meantioned in the video: by lying over small things just to be polite and avoid "pain" we more and more normalize lying to a point, where we unconsciously deceive each other and ourself up to a point where we no longer are able to differentiate between truth/reality and lies. our perceiption of reality is influenced by our exchange of information with each other. it also makes communication more and more challenging since language is used to avoid pain rather than the exchange of information. (this is often pronounced in communication between autistic and allistic people.) You can even go as far as saying that downplaying lying or even demand lying just to protect our emotions can be a danger to our species' survival since we need to have a clear picture of how things actually are despite our indiviual emotional sensitivities..
Betraying someone's secret happiness gain would have to offset the amount of pain and unhappiness caused by the betray.
Absolutely! So it depends on whether the overall or aggregate happiness is increased. Do you think Bentham might be off the hook here because, practically speaking, the unhappiness caused by betrayal would almost always outweigh any happiness gained?
Utilitarianism