Express your views in not more than 150-200 words in the form of a debate either for or against the motion on the topic- Morality is for Utopians; this world runs on desire. (with reference to the summer of the beautiful white horse).
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Answer:As to moral philosophy, they have the same disputes among them as we have here: they examine what are properly good both for the body and the mind, and whether any outward thing can be called truly good, or if that term belong only to the endowments of the soul. They inquire likewise into the nature of virtue and pleasure; but their chief dispute is concerning the happiness of a man, and wherein it consists? Whether in some one thing, or in a great many? They seem, indeed, more inclinable to that opinion that places, if not the whole, yet the chief part of a man's happiness in pleasure; and, what may seem more strange, they make use of arguments even from religion, notwithstanding its severity and roughness, for the support of that opinion so indulgent to pleasure; for they never dispute concerning happiness without fetching some arguments from the principles of religion, as well as from natural reason, since without the former they reckon that all our inquiries after happiness must be but conjectural and defective.
The soul of a person is immortal
God has designed the soul to be happy
God has appointed rewards for good and virtuous acts and punishments for vice. These rewards and punishments are distributed after this life
These principles shape the attitudes and behaviour of Utopian citizens, who seek happiness in good and honest pleasures. To be virtuous is to live according to nature and the dictates of reason.
Utopians believe that reason:
Kindles in us a love for the Divine Majesty
Keeps our minds cheerful, free from passion, and committed to the happiness of others as well as to our own pleasure
Inclines us to enter into society and seek the public good
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