#Universal Principles

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G.W.F. Hegel on Universal Principles and their Accessibility

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"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A video that simply explains Hegel's Dialectic:

Primary Source: The Hegel Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and edited by Stephen Houlgate

Secondary Source: The Accessible Hegel by Michael Allen Fox

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Someday we'll discover sentient life on another world, and as soon as we know the words we can probably bond over our mutual hatred of automated phone trees, or the equivalent.

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When trying to understand Divine Timing think of the unfolding of the seasons, we can give it a date but they unfold in their own time.

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just want a dark bar, to be comfy, and to be able to talk.

not sure i’ll ever be okay to be around people. there came a point where i was very much done speaking to allyse, but i allowed it to continue. still need to work on ending situations; being assertive and drawing boundaries with everyone.

strange man would not stop talking to me—hitting on me and going so far as to verbally give me his number. i have a book. i keep returning to said book. leave me alone. (why is it the attention you desire always goes unnoticed, and the attention you receive always disheartening?)

left my pen at work (and i am very particular about my pen) so couldn’t write in my notebook (i tried and it was all wrong!) all night. been trying not to use tumblr for venting. oh well.

would like to leave now. spend some time upstate.

just need to get back to where i was. garden, thoughts, walls. been a strange day.

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Summary: Left wing dingbat tries to make the case about why the United States was never a Christian country. This stood out to me because of what Michael Knowles had to say about reason and universal principles.

From the transcript:

The first thing that strikes me about this New York Times piece is the ignorance. This woman just has no idea what she's talking about. The second thing that strikes me is the obliviousness when she says they (Christians) want to make you submit to their beliefs.

Yeah lady you just finished pride month. You demand that we submit to your beliefs not just on Pride but on all of liberalism even on the rejection of Christianity in American public life. That is a liberal demand and it's a totalitarian demand. You're demanding that we Christians give up our beliefs to buy into your nonsense ideology and you are far more authoritarian in your insistance upon that than any Christians are in America.

Here's the kicker. While most of the Ten Commandments involve Universal Principles and moral precepts that can be found in the Bible, not everyone draws ethical guidelines from religion. When the 10 Commandments say thou shalt have no other gods before me the implication is there is one true God. That is decidedly not true for all Americans line by line. Most of the Ten Commandments involve Universal Principles.

What makes a Universal Principle? Notice she gets it backwards. I think good evidence that a principle is universal is that it's in the Ten Commandments because those come from God Himself. She thinks it goes other way around. Well no, it's just that we know the universal principles and maybe some of Christianity fits into that. Well okay, where do you get your Universal Principles from? She's maybe deduced those principles from reason. Okay I believe in that. I'm a natural law guy. I believe that the natural law is inscribed on every human heart, and that we can know universal moral truths through reason.

We can know the existence of God with certainty from human reason. How do you know your reason is reliable? How do you know that? Why can you trust what your reason says in as much as you trust it? The only way that it's possible is if the universe is intelligible, and if there is an intelligence which created the universe, and if you have some of that intelligence. If, in other words, you are made in the image and likeness of God.

To trust your own reason, to come to certain conclusions about universal moral principles or whatever implies, -whether you want to admit it or not- that you believe in God. To attack Christianity for saying -and Judaism for saying- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me, the implication is that there's one true God.

Well yeah, I mean if there's such a thing as God at all, which they're necessarily must be, then there will be a true God. There will be lots of false gods, and because of that, we can distinguish between truth and falsehood using our reason.

That's how you supposedly came to your Universal Principles lady, and she obviously believes that there is one true God. For her it's the one true God of liberalism which is really just the worship of the self. She's saying that Christians your God is false. My liberal God is true, and you will bow down before my liberal God, and you will shut up and get out of public life. That's what she's saying that there's one true God (and she and her cronies decide what it is)..

That is decidedly not true for all Americans. No you're saying that all Americans should worship only the self. The problem with that is then you have a lot of different little gods. You're all very jealous Gods, -all of you individuals- and so you're going to impose your irrational will on everybody by telling Christians to shut up in public life. Your religious values are not American values. Forgive them Father they know not what they do.

The ignorance is striking because you know 50 or 60 or 70 years ago a grade school child would understand the basic aspects of American history that this New York Times journalist denies. It's the obliviousness what she speaks out against as being authoritarian and infringing on the religious rights of others in Christianity. She herself is imposing in a far more authoritarian and irrational way. They don't even know. Yes, the journalists lie. Yes, the journalists are corrupt and deceptive, but they're also just so ignorant and oblivious. You don't know. If you ever attempted to give them credit, you do not have to do it.

(This reinforces my opinion that people who consider themselves 'academics' in the media -so called intellectuals- can actually be the dumbest mf-ers on the planet. High IQ has little to do with spiritual intelligence or how susceptible one is to group think, being influenced by bad ideas, or caring too much about what other people think.)

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TTRPGs teach Moral Values.

If we look at Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development, we find players practising and learning these behaviors, values and principles at each stage.

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I guess it’s just an unspoken and unbreakable universal rule that no matter how much or how little coffee I have in a mug, if I’m carrying it upstairs some of it is invariably going to spill out.

I hate this rule.

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There are many of these First Principles, as I have called them, which are common to the great mass of mankind, and are therefore true, as having been imprinted on the human mind by its Maker. Such are the great truths of the moral law, the duties, for instance, of justice, truth, and temperance. Others are peculiar to individuals, and are in consequence of no authority; as, for instance, to take a case which cannot often occur, the opinion that there is no difference between virtue and vice. Other principles are common to extended localities; men catch them from each other, by education, by daily intercourse, by reading the same books, or by being members of the same political community. Hence nations have very frequently one and the same set of First Principles, of the truth of which each individual is still more sure, because it is not only his opinion, but the opinion of nearly every one else about him.

Blessed John Henry Newman, The Present Position of Catholics in England, 287.

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