What Social / Moral Principles do you find compelling and why? How do these principles fit with the personal principles you identified in Blog 2? Do they conflict at all? Do you think you can live according to both? How will you go about doing so? i.e. Prioritize them? Adopt specific ones for specific contexts?
A social priniciple that I find compelling is libertarianism. I feel that complete and whole hearted libertarianism is the way for all men to be happiest. Being free to do what you please without having to be bound by laws and social boundaries, can promote the inner man's supreme happiness, something that can be considered a purpose of life.
The libertarian take on life can conflict with some of my personal priniciples spoken about in Blog 2. In Blog 2 I mentioned having a belief in God and religion. God being the supreme ruler and controller of the universe and religion being a set of rules that can either make or break a person's identity as a person of faith. As a person of faith, I would suppsoed to be used to rules and regulation that will establish me as a Christian. For example, someone cannot be a Muslim not adhering to the priniciples of Islam that create the Muslim identity. Therefore, Libertarianism cannot be correlated with my personal philosophies spoken about in Blog 2. However, also in Blog 2 I wrote about my intrigue in the Taoist belief. Allowing the natural flow, to guide life, one can live freely and without stress, something can vaguely correlate to the idea of Libertarianism. That aspect of my second blog can reflect the ideas represented in this one.
I do not belive that I can live according to both without being bias towards one idea. Religion is too concrete to be incorporated with Libertarianism. The rules on how to live life and how to make one's self acceotable unto God defy the ultimate freedom that Libertarianism entails.
This week I commented on http://dallaslrsmith.blogspot.com and http://lukedemuro.blogspot.com .
