conscience
Hello Rabbi, do you think a conscience is a good thing? Is it recommended to acquire it or educate the next generation in this way? Is a good deed that I do because of conscience a good deed in the first place? Isn’t conscience what moralists call “fear of God”?
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Thank you, I didn't understand what the difference is between a good person and a moral person.
A good person is a person who does good deeds. Even a sheep does good deeds because of its nature and not by choice or decision. A person who acts well out of a commitment to a moral commandment is a moral person.
You have linked two components here: commitment to the moral order and not because of nature. And you seem to be saying that a deterministic commitment to the moral order because of nature (this is how one's consciousness is structured when it recognizes a moral order) seems to you more like a sheep than choosing, by free choice, a commitment to the moral order. To me, this is a strange claim.
“Commitment by nature” is an oxymoron. If it is an action by nature then there is no commitment here. I will act and not act. Commitment is the result of my decision.
There is a mental state of commitment, which can be reached as a result of choice or as a result of a natural process. You could just call the choice a moral process, but I don't see what's not-so-casual about that.
Or are you saying something stronger? That a determinist saying thank you for something is like the recording from a can machine. A determinist hugging his child is like the child wrapping himself in a cozy wool blanket. And nothing particularly concerning morality and commitment?
Exactly like that.
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