From: "James Kennedy" <jameske3001-AT-clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: concerned zen
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:03:12 +0100



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From: <JonYev-AT-aol.com>
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Subject: Re: concerned zen


> In a message dated 4/24/00 2:39:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> indi_orpheus-AT-crosswinds.net writes:
>
> << With freedom comes responsibility, he says? Personal responsibility is
the
> same
>  as morality. Am I doing something responsible is another phrase for Am I
> doing
>  good or evil.  >>
>
> Perhaps this is a bit of a leap. But certainly I would agree that personal
> responsibility is the same as submission, in a sense. The questions
becomes,
> who do you submit to? (likewise, who did Nietzsche submit to)
>
> Jonathan
>
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I don't agree that personal responsibility is the same as morality. Personal
respoinsibility could be a matter of personal virtue. That is, what one
personally regards as important to do. So, there is an authentic sense of
responsibility that is not necessarily affected by the publicness of
morality as a mass system of controlling public behaviour.

Good and evil are concepts that derive from Christianity. However, personal
responsibility concerns itself with the desirable or the undesirable.
Neither contain the loaded terms of good or evil. I think that you are
confusing the two and thus you lump then together as though they are the
same.



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