One can only do what one desires to unless force otherwise.Therefore whatever someone does of their own free will is something they desired to do.Therefore any good action someone does of their own free will is not a good action because it is an action

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Anonymous 02/09/16 (Tue) 03:16:52 629bab No.3544

One can only do what one desires to unless force otherwise.

Therefore whatever someone does of their own free will is something they desired to do.

Therefore any good action someone does of their own free will is not a good action because it is an action they desired to do anyway.

Anonymous 02/09/16 (Tue) 03:58:46 69ad93 No.3545

>Therefore any good action someone does of their own free will is not a good action because it is an action they desired to do anyway.

An awkward conclusion, resting on a lot more premises than given in your argument. Good and evil are properties that do not require free will, though that position has become somewhat of a truism lately.

Anonymous 02/09/16 (Tue) 05:24:49 7202c5 No.3547

>>3544

i dont follow your logic.why cant you choose to do good?

ill just go ahead and save the philosophy majors around here their time by posting their defacto response

define good action

define desire

Anonymous 03/01/16 (Tue) 17:24:33 2e214f No.3676

>something good isn't good because you desired for it to happen

This is a false statement. Nowhere in the definition of "good" does it say it must happen by chance and never of free will.

I understand you're really posing the question, "Do we ever do anything because it's good, or do we only ever act in self-interest?"

But this ignores the fact that we can desire to do something because it is good. Humans are vain creatures, and they have fought and died for what they believed was right and wrong, for no personal gain.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 06:58:27 938b9f No.3778

>>3544

I think what you are trying to say is that when we help someone or do any good deed, you do it because you fulfill some narcissistic needs or it makes you happy, you recieve some emotions from it, you do not do it solely for doing good, you do it in exchange of something, and that is caused by our nature.