Response to In Class Discussion

After class today, there are a few points that I think we needed to clear up but were unable to. First of all, I think that we needed to define happiness further in order to clarify the discussion and decide if it was truly the goal we were looking for. In addition, I believe that to satisfy the question we needed to talk about what the universal goal should look like so we could recognize it if it came up in discussion. In my opinion the universal goal not only can be unnattainable, but must be unnattainable in order to satisfy our argument. The universal goal must be unnattainable as this is what makes it universal. If any person has gained the goal, this person will have a new goal, and therefore the goal will not be universal anymore. I think this will help us determine the universal goal, or at least rule out some goals that are not universal.