pollyanna on Nostr: It seems to me that there are two different things here. one of them concerns action: ...

It seems to me that there are two different things here. one of them concerns action: when someone acts, the principles that govern life are already available, but the actions need to be defined and created by the individual who is relating to something or someone. a value can be the basis for many different actions.

The principles, or values, are universal, but it is not through conceptual elaboration that we will come into contact with them. beauty may be a value, but we can not say what beauty is unless the act of saying becomes beauty itself. conceptualizing an universal principle puts us in the same place as those who believe they define their own principles.