Does God exist? If so, we better get on His good side. If not, we seek the best plan for that too. All of the virtues that please God also make us naturally happy. How? Because we want self-control. We want to enact our will pleasurably and with the least impediment. We want to be in control of our emotions.and not be slaves to our impulses. To achieve this, we must ask whether we are happy with our desires. If for example, we have an addiction, we must admit we unhappily desire something so intensly. We want to then control the intensity of those desires and set our priorities in order. How do we do this? With use of REASON. Reason is stronger than our emotions but the more we apply reason to our emotions, the more rational our emotions become. We do this by thinking, then imagining, and then feeling. We lose control when we imagine, feel, then think #god #parler #parlerusa #ethics #virtue #philosophy #psychology
