Nature of Valuational Consciousness in Good Life

作     者：Kumar Neeraj Sachdev 

作者机构：Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani 

出 版 物：《Journal of Philosophy Study》 (哲学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第2卷第10期

页      面：767-771页

学科分类：1303[艺术学-戏剧与影视学] 13[艺术学] 083001[工学-环境科学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学] 

主　　题：good life consciousness valuational consciousness strong evaluation selflessness 

摘      要：I make an attempt in the paper to argue in favor of the person-centered view of good life, where becoming a good person involves seeking to qualitatively transform oneself into a worthy human being. I maintain that becoming fully a person and respecting others as persons are achievements that are not assured for all of us. Thus, for the purpose I prepare the ground for an account of good life that rests on valuational consciousness. I propose that one may ascribe valuational consciousness to a person who is a value-sensitive rational being striving to attain a kind of inner transparency. Evidently, to say that a person has valuational consciousness is to stress the values, which are built into personal consciousness. The life of a person, whether that of truth, courage, nobility, justice, kindness, is a life marked by ego transcending personal consciousness that reaches out to humanity at large. And such a repository of values enables a human being to attain the ideal of good life. The ideal of good life, I contend, consists of attaining the higher order posture of selflessness--a posture of inner transparency. It is to shake off the egocentric partiality that characterizes our usual attitudinal stance towards one another.