Socrates is pretty much the main thing to live by, but that is quite hard without having his insane intelligence.
I prefer to use Aristotle views, for the most part. Never going into the excess of the situation, as well as trying to stay out of the deficient zone.
If anyone quotes me - If you haven't read anything on Aristotle, don't comment please.
Can you please explain further the topics you brushed over? What is Socrates' perspective? What is Aristotle's perspective? Considering I want to increase the happiness of everyone through knowledge while being practical in knowing most will not research this themselves, you can help us all out with the hedonistic utilitarian goal in mind. Also, what do you mean by not going into the excess of a situation? Finally, what is the deficient zone?
When I can, I brown townyze what my actions will do, possible outcomes of it, the probability of each projected outcome, if the likelihood of an outcome which is beneficial to my efforts or to me directly, if it's even worth the effort, et cetera, et cetera.
This obviously takes time, which is why I prefer text-based communication over verbal forms in general.
This type of thought process proves very useful in things like social engineering and decision-making overall, however at times it's detrimental to my efforts rather than beneficial, and I've been practicing abandoning the processes when that occurs.
It's also kinda annoying with small, insignificant things like "What do I want to eat?" and "What can I do to entertain myself?".
Not sure what that'd be called. Good luck.
Actually, odds are, this will be skipped over by most anyway.
You are a consequentialist, just like me. Except, you are not creating shortcuts. I feel you should
not go through the weighing process
each time, but instead mull over what decisions would be best in certain situations
ahead of time. I do this, and when the time comes I can piece several "preprocessed" decisions together based on the situation.
because VARIABLES are involved.
I can't give you a definitive answer because of that reason.
GIVE ME VARIABLE VALUES AND I'LL TELL YOU, K
You are approaching a social situation scientifically. You should be able to figure out what he is insinuating, and make a guess on the variables based on that. It's basic social skills.