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An interesting argument presented by Hobbes: The argument he presents is as follows: 1. to live is to be in constant motion, 2. motions are desires, 3. and a highest good would be when all desires are at an end; therefore, since we are in constant motion, there can be no highest good. Agree or disagree? [/ QUOTE ] His argument says absolutely nothing about whether there IS a highest good: only that those of us still moving must not have reached it yet. Perhaps a highest good exists but is unattainable; perhaps those who reach it are somewhere Hobbes can' see them. In another country's philosophy, Nirvana, if I recall, is defined as a state of complete nothingness that takes many lifetimes of desirings to reach before you finally achieve it and are allowed to "jump off the carousel of rebirth". Disclaimer: I'm not saying this is the only thing I disagree with in Hobbes's argument, or that I am a believer in the alternatives I suggest here - just that this is more than enough to refute his position. |
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