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What is Good?

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Rafael Gallardo
Jan 31, 2025
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When it comes to what is “good” I would like to refer back to Jean-Paul Sartre and his idea of the imaginary and Hannah Arendt and her idea of the banality of evil & apply it to the subject, since of course they directly bring into question, what is good. Plus, I add my take on neuroscience and psychological phenomena that have been observed.

Also, I’d like to include some statistics because it makes sense to look up: stratification(strata). As a whole, it’s made of its parts, just as humans are made up of organs so it’s our social consciousness. A similar argument has been made by Siegfried Krakauer in The Human Ornament.

As you’ll also see in my argument, and I know I have mentioned it before, I’m interested in the pragmatic aspect of humans and our endeavors since we can only function in set ways due to our neurological limits- we can only take on endeavors that represent the limits of our thinking since we would not be able to think the way we do without our evolutionary history and to assume a good is to assume a bad, it is to assume that at some given point biologically we evolve to have the ability to think about these concepts, to distinguish between one state and another.

Interestingly Nietzsche’s works deal directly with the nature of morality. How does he explore it and that’s through its history in practice to arrive at the inception, genesis, of morality. At its core, it is clear to me Nietzsche was trying to find the nature of morality to see where it comes and what we find is the shifts of morals over time. How morality has developed temporally.

It is not necessary for me to explore where morality comes from, but I’d like to explore human morality by taking a look at burial procedures through history since even though not necessary, I can’t help myself and explore these fascinating ideas seeing I have been surrounded by death, death of my best friend, death of the oldest man with the youngest energy I have ever met and as I mentioned the death of those around me that even though I would never say I was acquainted to them, I was directly in their network and their death was notable in my circles.

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