Can value-states have priority over other ideals like happiness or knowledge?
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Workshop # 8, Priority of Value, Series 12, (S7,29)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
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THIS WEEK: Human aspiration has traditionally embraced a plethora of ideals and objectives like happiness, knowledge, wisdom, truth, morality, meaning, enlightenment and even consciousness itself. Is there any way of finding order or priority amongst these objectives? Is it feasible, for instance, that value-states such as love or morality might have priority over other ideals or psychological states such as happiness, pleasure or knowledge? Must integrity, for example, always have priority over pleasure or the avoidance of pain? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. vii.
