06/12/2019
Personal Phil Article
Stephan’s
Nonaggression Principle VS My View of Ethics
I
grew up in both America and Brazil. While I grew up in Brazil, I was introduced
to Japanese culture as I used to frequently visit a small Japanese community in
and near Mococa inside the interior of Sao Paulo. For those who are unaware,
Brazil has the highest concentration of Japanese outside of Japan. Moreover, on
my dad’s side of the family we are Polish-Lithuanian-Russian while on my mom’s
side is Brazilian. Therefore, growing up in both America and Brazil with a
collection of diverse cultural influences, I’ve experienced various cultures,
values, and mindsets. Now that I’ve grown older and reflect on the cultural
norms and hot they are similar and different, I have come up with my own philosophical
view and vision for ethics. In this article I want to compare my view of ethics
with the nonaggression principle coined by modern philosopher Stephan Molyneux.
In various
speeches and videos, Stephan Molyneux’s provides a philosophical idea he
proposes as the nonaggression principle. It's a principle that could be defined as a value in which agression is perhaps inherently wrong. It’s a bit rough to explain, but I
will do my best. The nonaggression principle is a philosophical idea or argument
that everything done without force or aggression leads to natural and prosperous
means. An example of this could be that if a child is raised through force and
aggression, he or she will think it is okay to use force and violence to get
what they desire. Another possible example is a person who uses intimidation or
aggression to get what they desire will cause a disharmony in an environment
and perhaps causes others to become aggressive or think aggressively to achieve
their desires instead of working together and finding other productive methods
in which works for everyone and allows others to get what they want. It seems
reasonable that everyone want to live a happy and productive life. I can see
how the nonaggressive principle can be useful in helping to create a rational and
civilized society capable of working together and achieving great things.
My philosophy of
ethics utilizes the various functional and harmonious mindsets, cultures, and
personal ideas in which I believe could help improve society through ethics. My
philosophical views and ethical perspectives are a collection of cultural and
philosophical ideas made into creating a comprehensive narrative in which one
improves themselves for the purpose of improving society. The purpose of these
ethics is to: create a prosperous life in which one has the means of achieving
their desires; emphasize on a collection of shared integral and collective values found on the Charter of Ethics; create a standard of
living or lifestyle in which caters to the idea of trying to achieve happiness or interpersonal relationships;
and bring society together in a unique way in which improves upon western
culture creating a more interpersonal, respectful, and more free-to-be-your
authentic-self mindset. It also introduces new ideas such as always be
respectful first then you are free to be your authentic self, destroying the
idea of carrying a public face or façade of one’s personality. I believe
creating this interpersonal social collective or relationship can allow for
great social-systemic and socio-infrustructural achievements. An easy way to
state such a comprehensive and complex idea can be imagining a society which
allows a person to be their full authentic selves without boundaries with a set
of universal ethical values to create a liberating society with more
freedoms and less social-behavior restrictions and perceptions.
The use of my
vision of ethics uses an ethical charter I created to self-reflect on ideas and personal
development strategies for the purpose of improving oneself. It is a list of values with a
brief list of greater and more important values in which I believe allows for
one to emphasize reflecting and improving themselves to create a culture that
uses wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, where by creating a collective and close society, gives an idea for a more close family-like society. It's difficult to put what I write in words as it features a lot of ideas found throughout my blog on what i believe brings a society closer together, functional, while emphasizing harmony, convnence and happiness. This is the most brief I can go about with
my philosophical views as many personal ideas and
narratives would take long to explain or consolidate; for example it extends from improving education and other forms of systems to human behaviors and even culture.
Stephan
Molyneux’s and my philosophical views covers a variety of areas. To go into
them in detail would take a lot of time; more time than what I have planned to write
for a simple blog. Nevertheless, because there are ethical similarities, I can
correlate the similarities and differences between the philosophical views. The
nonaggression principle has a lot of similarities with my own philosophical views
or the values presented on the charter. Both philosophical views aim to create
an improved and functional if not harmonious society. My philosophical view
aims by visiting, identifying, reflecting, and ultimately improving every value
to create a individual that as they grow and their mind develops, to be ethically proficient in behavior and intellect where by improving themselves,
they ultimately improve society. In the nonaggression principle, the same idea
is portrayed but instead it’s by utilizing this principle in many aspects of
life, families, relationships, systems, and so on which overall improves society.
Furthermore, both Stephan’s and my philosophical idea attempts to achieve the
same goal but with slightly different methods. I believe Stephan’s nonaggression
principle is a very intuitive thought that required a lot of thought, time, analysis,
debate, and how it can be applied or argued. I do perhaps see one issue in relation to
my version of ethics. My philosophical ideas places emphasis on personal integrity, humility, and
honesty to prevent greed, being selfish, and other irrational personal behaviors. Again it teaches to have a personal desire for self-improvement.
Nevertheless, I am unaware of how the nonaggression principle deals with personal
motives that don’t involve aggression such as dealing with greed, over self-indulgence,
being selfish, extreme laziness, perhaps being inconsiderate, ignorant, arrogant, or doing negative things for the purpose of self-gratification. It
may be that I am missing out on or overlooked key values or elements; however, there
seems to be behaviors that the nonaggression principle perhaps doesn’t cover or prevent.
In conclusion I
believe both philosophical views are excellent and with the world knowing them,
the views can help improve society and give them a vision on how to live a good
and meaningful life.
