MODES OF RESPONSIBILITY

 

 

1. One should not be deterred by felt inertia from acting for intelligible goods. (agst laziness)

 

 

2. One should not be pressed by enthusiasm or impatience to act individualistically for intelligible goods. (agst individualism)

 

 

3. One should not choose to satisfy an emotional desire except as part of one's pursuit and/or attainment of an intelligible good other than the satisfaction of the desire itself. (agst hedonism)

 

 

4. One should not choose to act in accord with an emotional aversion, except when necessary to avoid some intelligible evil other than the inner tension experienced in enduring the aversion. (agst cowardice)

 

 

5. One should not, in response to different feelings toward different persons, willingly proceed with a preference for anyone unless the preference is required by intelligible goods themselves. (agst unfairness)

 

 

6. One should not choose on the basis of emotions which bear upon empirical aspects of intelligible goods (or bads) in a way which interferes with a more perfect sharing in the good or avoidance of the bad. (agst acting for mere appearances) 

 

 

7. One should not be moved by hostility to freely accept or choose the destruction, damaging, or impeding of any intelligible good. (agst hatred)

 

 

8. One should not be moved by a stronger desire for one instance of an intelligible good to act for it by choosing to destroy, damage, or impede some other instance of an intelligible good, whether that same one or another. (means-end)