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Post by Patricia on Sept 16, 2017 18:25:11 GMT
Fascinating question.
"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare, based on this quote alone, seems to be taking a normative science view of life. The idea that nothing in and of itself is good or bad, but that it is our interpretation of it (whatever it may be) that gives it a value is based firmly in cultural norms, values, morals and ethics. Good or bad, as values to be ascribed to things, cannot exist outside of human interpretation or labeling, and certainly are not base of cause and effect science. Any effect observed would only be good or bad, using Shakespeare's lens, if the person observing the effect deemed it so.
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