09-11-2014, 04:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-11-2014, 04:24 PM by Adonai One.)
(09-11-2014, 04:03 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: Eckhart Tolle mentioned "virtue" when he talked about the Tao, and said it is not used much today.Virtue is synonymous with honor. However, virtue is further removed from the human subject. It just means "goodness." It never answers what virtue is good for. Ayn Rand claimed virtues were what was pleasing to the rational mind of the self. Others claim more esoteric notions.
In any case, virtue is a distant yet similar concept to honor. It just has a morally dogmatic slant that claims certain things are virtues and others are not. Honor is far more flexible as a concept, with its use varying from culture to culture almost as much as virtue but not towards morality but what is desired directly and internally.
(09-11-2014, 04:15 PM)Folk-love Wrote: What would happen if you were unable to live up to this Law of Responsibility?On this planet? Applying it to yourself and gradually towards others?
Great amounts of service. I imagine for the discipline practitioner inevitable leadership, fostering and care of others to the greatest competence and efficacy, not in a direction towards growing societal power but general care for the well-being of all people involved. (e.g. everyone fed and enabled towards their own growth)
If one were to apply The Law of Responsibility so far as to consider the human race themselves, it would lead to a service that could very well inevitably unite the planet into being very harmonious.
Edit: Oh I thought you said "able." Unable? We have what we have right now. Nobody fully caring for themselves or others. Even the negative polarity will learn honor as a total lack of compassion towards anyone standing in their way and thus a complete responsibility for their goals towards control. We don't have that fortunately, but we do have stagnation.