T --> A --> C
Thinking -->Actions-->Circumstances
T-->A = Freedom or Free Will
A-->C = Responsibility
Consequentialism: something is right because it produces a good result.
Deontology: something is right because it is inherently good or right.
This is a consequentialist model, but one could also say thinking is important deontologically by claiming that it is in humans' nature (whether designed by God or evolution) to think, therefore we should express our designed nature and think well.
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My question for this is do both ways of thinking result in good for the individual, society, or both?
ReplyDeleteThough there are certainly ways of thinking better where "better" would provide personal benefits at the expense of society (money, for instance), I would argue that the truly better ways of thinking will always produce benefits both for the individual's circumstances and for the circumstances of the society around him. But the main point here is that the circumstances of the individual's life are predominantly the result of his own thinking (so long as freedom and responsibility are present and protected--as oppposed to many situations where they are interfered with), and the circumstances of the society are predominantly the collective result of the thinking of all the people in that society.
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