I stopped entirely asking the question of what I should do, and began to focus entirely on what I want to do
The utilitarian comes to Stirner’s egoism at last! Welcome, brother! All hail Saint Max!
When one starts fussing over “what shoulds should I have?”, one has gone tail biting insane.
Some of your wants are moral wants. They’re not that much more mysterious than your “yummy wants”. Morality is another set of preferences you have. Once they’re no longer “rational truths” for you to calculate, but some of the many preferences you have, you can get down to satisfying them just as you satisfy your yummy preferences.
I think rationalist moral tail biting leads to akrasia because calculating isn’t how one satisfies or even experiences moral preferences. It larges displaces focus on your moral preferences. The proof of the pudding lies in tasting, not in some rationalist calculation on how good it is going to taste.
The utilitarian comes to Stirner’s egoism at last! Welcome, brother! All hail Saint Max!
When one starts fussing over “what shoulds should I have?”, one has gone tail biting insane.
Some of your wants are moral wants. They’re not that much more mysterious than your “yummy wants”. Morality is another set of preferences you have. Once they’re no longer “rational truths” for you to calculate, but some of the many preferences you have, you can get down to satisfying them just as you satisfy your yummy preferences.
I think rationalist moral tail biting leads to akrasia because calculating isn’t how one satisfies or even experiences moral preferences. It larges displaces focus on your moral preferences. The proof of the pudding lies in tasting, not in some rationalist calculation on how good it is going to taste.