Doing: Self-discovery and Empowerment through Clarity of Purpose

Abstract

In the previous chapter we ended with a discussion of morality and ethics and we addressed the emotional content to moral judgement whether the moral obligation to act and to take action in a social framework or moral value when we make reference to character, motives, or intentions. However, there are also judgements of nonmoral value or simply value judgements. In those we evaluate, not so much actions, persons, motives, and the like, but all sorts of other things: cars, paintings, experiences, forms of government, and what not. We say they are good, bad desirable, undesirable, and so on, but we do not mean that they are morally good or morally bad, since they are generally not the kinds of things that can be morally good or bad. This chapter will focus on doing as it pertains to increasing value. One typical use of the term value pertains to quantity of one good that is exchangeable for the quantity of another good. In this context we refer to value not in terms of personal utility satisfying human wants as it relates to time, place or the possession of something that gives satisfaction. We also are not addressing here use value that is the usefulness to the individual directly. We are referring to value that persons have in a network of exchange. Let's be quite clear that we are not about to embark on a discussion