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All in Good Faith: A Modern Day Ethical Theory of a Pothead
The Baked Sage: Thoughts and Theories of a Stoned Philosopher
by Michelle Montoro
There are age old questions that ancient philosophers were pondering thousands of years ago about human morality and how we determine what is moral, how we know the difference between right and wrong, and what do we do with all the grey area? While the brilliant minds of Socrates and Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus have set the groundwork by which contemporary philosophers continue this tradition of ethical theory, I am still left with doubts. Many, many doubts.
I have doubts about my ability, our ability, to distinguish right from wrong. I have doubts about the capacity of the human mind to be unclouded by judgments in determinations of right and wrong. I have doubts about the human ability to act without ulterior motives. I have doubts that it is even human thought that defines our ethical standards. And I have really big doubts that we will ever find conclusive answers to these questions in this lifetime.
Yet we will continue to try to find the answers. Because that is what we do as human beings. We were given the gift (or perhaps it’s a curse) of rational thought and it drives us to places that no other creature in the animal kingdom has gone…
