http://crayoncandyjar.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/saintliness-love-and-drunkeness/ musings about mountain living, book reading, wiki whatnots Sun, 17 May 2009 00:18:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://crayoncandyjar.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/saintliness-love-and-drunkeness/#comment-6 cdccdc Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:48:56 +0000 http://crayoncandyjar.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-6 Ahh, yes, we must draw a line between deprivation and non-attachment, I suppose... Enjoyment is not, entirely, for the ego anyway, is it? Personal happiness, in some way, contributes to the greater good... And so, we're back to beer again. No idea about Kant, but... why not? Hurray for a nibble of self-serving philosophy. Ahh, yes, we must draw a line between deprivation and non-attachment, I suppose… Enjoyment is not, entirely, for the ego anyway, is it? Personal happiness, in some way, contributes to the greater good… And so, we’re back to beer again. No idea about Kant, but… why not? Hurray for a nibble of self-serving philosophy.

]]> http://crayoncandyjar.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/saintliness-love-and-drunkeness/#comment-5 Eric Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:41:18 +0000 http://crayoncandyjar.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-5 Interesting. Gandhi's non-attachment certainly seems to be an extreme form, at least as Orwell depicts it. I guess I don't think practicing non-attachment for the good of yourself or the world *must* result in asceticism. There's always the Buddhist injunction to take the middle way. And yeah ... was it Kant who proved that beer is a moral good? I know someone did ... Interesting. Gandhi’s non-attachment certainly seems to be an extreme form, at least as Orwell depicts it. I guess I don’t think practicing non-attachment for the good of yourself or the world *must* result in asceticism. There’s always the Buddhist injunction to take the middle way. And yeah … was it Kant who proved that beer is a moral good? I know someone did …

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