WHAT I MEAN BY "PARADISE"

By "paradise", I mean the social condition where everyone's highest ranking desires are gratified.

This is a DESIRE-BASED concept of paradise, notable in distinction to three contrasting conceptions of paradise:

• PLEASURE-BASED (hedonistic), where everyone experiences pleasure pretty much all the time.

• ETHICAL-BASED, where everyone does what they "should" do, and experiences what they "should" experience (pleasure or not).

• SUBJECT-OBJECT-MERGE-BASED, where everyone experiences themselves as identical with the world around them, and it as identical with them. All distinctions whatever seem arbitrary and meaningless.

• PLEASURE-BASED (hedonistic) - Problem:
  Assumes everyone wants pleasure all the time. This is a premature assumption.

• ETHICAL-BASED - Problems:
  1. Prematurely assumes we all want this experience.
  2. This experience may (or may not) actually constitute getting what we want. (Hence is not really an alternative, but an instance of desire-based paradise)

• SUBJECT-OBJECT-MERGE-BASED - Problem:
  Assumes everyone wants this experience. This is a premature assumption.

See also my outline of "How to Achieve Paradise Using Reason".