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Judgement, value and law

(*) is no doubt that summer is a proper season Montaigne selected readings and a meticulous type who submitted their experiences, impressions and opinions to a method that rocked both moral and gambling imposed training, while challenging the use of changing moral opinion as which can be imposed at all, since it would be perverse for indefinite versatile and useless. Variables to resolve these moral and chance that could have reduced to the status of a new moral or, increasingly secular version of the Renaissance, arbitrista. And he anticipated the empire's prestige or discredit personal opinion is for the social position or group where it is overriding the value and special nature of the trial. It is useful to read now that social premium brand that we believe we assigned in the securities markets, enabling us or discredited to be recognized and integrated, but preventing the knowledge-as opposed to the recognition of others, and independence of mind. Without doubt foresaw that it would be an inexhaustible source of quotes and comments, although his vision was not to sense that would be inspired Nickjournal tickets. Is not the first time you use or the last.

About morality and its strength as a brace on the view outside his capacity as a system for ordering social thought and traffic trials, wrote in Chapter XL of Book I of the Trials whole size and mission statement in its title: That experience of good and evil depends largely on our view . And he says the following:

"Men," says an ancient Greek sentence, "they torment their views on things, not the things themselves. " If I could establish the full truth of this proposition, he would earn an important point for relieving our miserable human condition. Because if the evils we have penetrated only through our view, seems to be in our power to despise or cut in property. If things are performing at our mercy, why not have them or accommodate them at our convenience? If what we call evil and torment is not evil nor torment you, and only our imagination that gives quality, change is in our hands. And if we can choose, if nothing forces us, is an extreme folly opt for the match that we find most annoying, and give the disease to poverty and contempt and troublesome a sour taste and can give good and be so fortunate just gives us the area and shape concerns us. Now, let's see if it can be argued that what we call evil is not his (...)

Separate things, wandered without trial by the reign of opinions. The problem centered on whether natural condition of things determines our option, without possibility of appeal to be adjusted, then all natural moral challenges and religion as universal and timeless standard training trial unequivocal:
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original be afraid of things that had the power to stay in us by his own authority, and similarly would like at all. In fact, men are all the same species and, except differences of more or less, come with similar tools and instruments to understand and judge. But the variety of opinions about things clearly shows that they only penetrate us with a transaction. Perhaps some of the are home in their very being, but give them a thousand other new and otherwise be there.

The key is in the transaction between the nature of the thing and opinion and the mechanisms underlying the transaction. The different men seem to face one fact which is attributed originally a negative quality, indicates not only useful for different values \u200b\u200band different cultures and times but also the difficulty of assigning value and manage these views to prevail upon them without interest and common approach. That is, the law.

Apply the above to cases such as death, the death penalty, poverty, torture or the same management of public funds by our leaders.

(*) Published in Nickjournal, August 17, 2009 .