Tuesday, August 25, 2009 @8:15 PM
Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Criterion of Values' kinda popped into our mind while in the shower. Perhaps that is what we look for in our lives. A criterion of values.
What is wrong? What is right? Is this ours to decide?
Perhaps, technically speaking, it is. To the conformist, '
what society wills', to the rebel, '
what society wills not'. To the Christian, '
what God wills', to the anti-Christians, '
what God wills not'. To the hedonist, '
what the senses will', to the moralist, '
what the conscience wills'. To Themis, '
what Justice wills', to Eris, '
what Chaos wills'.
Society as an individual collective, what society wills as a singular aspiration. Not as what every one wills, but as what Everyone wills. To conform to a singular perspective; how much better off to conforming to one's own?
Yet what hath we that betters Society?
Then what is amorality if one's morals are the lack thereof? What is immorality if one follows his own morals? Are they not but measures to Society?
Or are morals defined from Conscience? Yet is Conscience derived from Society?
Perhaps that is the choice we have to make, the
moral choice behind every decision:
Our Conscience, or Our World.