Attempting to get some classic forum conversation going for a while. The question: what does it mean to live the good life?
A few assumptions to set up the conversation:
Given that, how would you define the 'good' life, and what principles should guide us through our lives and why?
To get things started I'll offer a post by fromderinside from the thread - The Humanist Ten Commitments
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A few assumptions to set up the conversation:
- Life has no objective purpose
- Morality is subjective
- The natural world is all that can be known
Given that, how would you define the 'good' life, and what principles should guide us through our lives and why?
To get things started I'll offer a post by fromderinside from the thread - The Humanist Ten Commitments
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Mine is a personal life system based on verifiable operations appropriate for living a life where transactions are positive to all parties one encounters within it. I call that objective the good life. Whether I believe anything is guided by the extent to which it is verifiable. Ethics are guides for executing transactions. My ethics modifiable. They are modifiable by whether my transactions are verifiable as positive. I don't think falling short of an ideal (positive transactions) is religion.