#ethic #moral #game-theory # [[Epistemic status]] # The learned necessarily holds higher ethics [[Cicero]] argue that the [[Wisdom|wise]] man is necessarily [[Good]], that is, holds higher moral standards than the average ape. >That was the point of [[Epicurus]]'s bold assertion that good always predominates in the wise man because he never has any lack of pleasures. And that, again, is how Epicurus, like the rest, reaches the conclusion we are after, that the wise man is always happy... ~ [[Cicero]] It is explainable using [[Logic]] and [[Game Theory]], holding such standards augment himself in the end. It is purely egoistic, but egoistic is good for the whole as [[The Buddha]] learned and [[Buddhism]] is [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Lindy Effect|Lindy-proof]]. >...moral goodness is enough by itself to create a happy life... ~ [[Cicero]] >I think [[Plato]] would have said that it consists in [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] of the good, and would have supplemented this definition with the [[Socratic method|Socratic]] doctrine that no man sins wittingly, from which it follows that whoever knows what is good does what is right. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] >The Analects affirms that the superior person seeks and loves learning for the sake of learning, and righteousness for the sake of righteousness. >~ [[Confucius]] ## [[mullikine]] on integrity ![[Screenshot 2022-06-19 at 09.24.22.png]] https://mullikine.github.io/posts/the-tapestry-of-truth/