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Don't Judge

Don't judge is used to deflate egos and in so doing con a person into believing that life is arbitrary leaving the judgmental feeling vulnerable and susceptible to deterministic and skeptical manipulation. You're welcome.

Another Quote from Dr Mortimer Adler

"In my view, Aristotle's moral philosophy is just as objectively true, just as pragmatically sound, just as practically wise today as it was then. In my view, human nature is exactly the same today as it was in Greek antiquity. In my view, all the manifold changes in our social, political, and economic institutions that have occurred since then, combined with all the extraordinary technological innovations that condition our lives today, are totally irrelevant to the problem we all face when we ask ourselves the primary ethical question: 'how should I conduct my life?'"

A Quote from Dr. Mortimer J. Adler

"Moral idiots" is strong talk, but it does express the repugnance that is evoked by those who deny objective validity to all moral judgments. In so doing they take the view expressed by the sophist Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic that might is right - that those who have the power to tyrannize over others, whether that be an absolute despot or a democratic majority, cannot be rationally condemned as unjust or as violating human rights. Those who are oppressed by such tyranny may not like it, but they cannot, in the course of reason, contend that it is wrong." - You're welcome

Idealistic Criteriology

If it is true that identity is the metaphysics of the idealistic, then consensus is their "knowledge" and confession is their "ethics".  My observations of life around me demonstrate the validity of the statement.  I notice that the idealistic will frequently ask people for their opinion rather than asking them for information and when the idealistic want to establish guilt, they engage in a dialectic attempting to induce a confession.  All of this is indirect and cumbersome but it is the only way the idealistic can maintain their volitional integrity. You're welcome.