Sep '24 (edited) • Practical Philosophy Club
The Good Life
However difficult it may me to define a good life, I think this insight is a key piece to the puzzle:
“People are all decent underneath. All that is necessary to prove this is to find out what the motives are for their superficial behavior—nasty, mean, or vicious though that behavior may be. Once these motives are understood, it is impossible to resent the behavior that follows.
“The insecurity cycle—from this flows everything. . . . The person who behaves badly behaves so because of hurt, actual and expected, and lashes out in self-defense, as a cornered animal might. The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wishes for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and behavior.”
~Abraham Maslow
That’s why, “Love your enemies.”
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