Another Opinion related to Evan's Enormous Question

What is good and bad?

This question is very subjective because good and bad may mean different things to everybody. For me good means things that lead to happiness in the long term, while it might even cause pain in the short term. In philosophy, good and bad acts are judged using moral laws. The best moral law I have found in philosophy is the Categorical Imperative by Immanuel Kant. According to that, a person should act only according to that maxim that he/she can wish to become a universal law. The main difference of this moral law compared to others in philosophy, is that the goodness of action is determined by the principle of the action, and not directly by the consequences of the action. According to utilitaristic ethics, people should act in a way that causes as good consequences as possible to as many people as possible. On the other hand, according to liberal ethics, the goodness of action is determined by whether it harms others or not.


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