Saturday, April 28, 2018

Morality and Catalysm

In Chemistry, a catalyst is a part of an interaction that contributes to the transformation of other parts, while itself remaining unchanged.  Accordingly, 'Catalysm' can be the Psychological and/or Moral theory in which a person remains unchanged as they modify external persons and conditions.  Now, even a casual summary easily reveals that most theories of either sort, despite other sharp differences, are Catalystic, even those that are adamantly agnostic about any concept of Personal Identity over Time.  Thus lacking has been any Moral Value of experiences that are commonly characterized as 'personal growth', or any capacity for evaluating behavior in those terms.

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