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Maybe to understand one has to differentiate
between moral issues
and spirituality and health issues.
Moral issues navigate around the fundamental issue
of respect with the other.
In general, modern moral leans towards the ideology of human rights.
So, if we had, for example, the possibility to apply
the human rights in the whole world,
there would be no more war,
massacre, genocide,
robbery, or ***.
So, if we respected today other human beings,
was would perfect moral demand,
the moral of human rights,
we see that the world would be progressing. However,
and this is the main point to understand what philosophy is:
even if we respected human rights and the others,
in the most perfect and better applied moral there is,
that doesn’t prevent us, for example, from aging.
We can be healthy, moral beings who respect others,
and we still age.
Why do we age?
This is an extra-moral issue,
it goes beyond moral.
We can be moral, respect the others,
and, for example, have a child that has cancer and dies.
This has nothing to do with moral.
All these existential issues regarding death,
regarding disease, regarding education,
even the banality of the everyday, what do we do with the banality of the everyday?
They are issues that go beyond moral,
that were considered by the great religions not long ago,
and even by the believers today.
But I think that if you’re not a believer,
these spirituality issues that are not moral issues
need to be approached with the help of philosophy
Modern philosophy, contemporary,
should also, as Greek philosophy,
approach these issues and issues of the good life
that is, once more, a life free of fears,
life that reaches serenity and freedom.