Social Choice: It may be asked how We and the World can or should choose the form of society we have. Either Anarchistic, Authoritarian, or Altruistic...
Populism: A basic dictionary meaning of Populism is that of promoting the interests of ordinary people. But it might be related to the way referenda a...
Racism: This is another of those terms that can mean almost anything. In this instance it is intrinsically to do with race, and attitudes to race. Rac...
Chaos and Crime: A world in extreme chaos is one without any effective law or code of conduct. It would not be at war, since war is conducted by ‘nati...
Democratic Tyranny: That modern semi-altruistic democracies are not all they purport to be is fairly inevitable, especially in a chaotic world. A ‘sta...
Impeccable Virtues of Pragmatic Tyranny and Autonomy It is the art of the tendentious to employ fashionable virtues of the time in a way that appears ...
Economy: Our economy and its system is not separate from our overall ethos. It is part of the definition of our society. Yet it still bears the marks ...
Antonyms: The common assumption with ethical values is that there are opposed conditions of man and society, on the pattern of virtue opposed to vice....
Extinction Rebellion: Those involved in this organisation are right about only one thing. The environmental problem subsumes all other problems of thi...
Gladiators Britain of today is an indeterminate democracy with a confused ethic. There has been the recent death of a professional boxer due to brain ...
Should Climate Activists Break the Law: There is a dimension of duty and responsibility that links Altruism and Tyranny – or mere Authoritarianism – a...
Racism; This another term that arouses irrational passion. With our present reductionist ethic, it is yet another value that is defined according to t...
As with the current Conservative leadership contest. A political system that relies on popular support is almost certain to be ethically muddled. If i...
Modern and Social Engineering A BBC documentary on LGB teaching at schools raised several questions. Quite apart from what is ‘right or wrong’. Firstl...
Public Benefit, Social Benefit, Government Benefit: There are a vast number of naive or tendentious people in the world, asking for absolute or ‘right...
Freedom – Pragmatism – Reductionism Reductionists tend to take particular values that they happen to like and extol them in isolation or with respect ...
Empower – Empowering: A term which is very popular today and would appear to be a positive emphasis on freedom. People are given the power to do thing...
Democracy: Until recently democracy in this country has been on the basis of representative government and not delegates, and not opinion polls. This ...
All the elementary values relate in varying degrees to all forms of stable society. Where they cease to do so then society is falling into conflict an...
A society of autonomous individuals is not what we have in this country, which in fact is very cooperative. But there is a vanity about freedom, that ...
The three types of society indicate the direction of travel. Not that everything is fixed in one or the other. There are of course any number of varia...
Freewill: An overstated faculty. We are often told that God has given us Freewill. But what it is we call God is both vague and has to be proved to ex...
I am still concocting notes on the general subject. On the matter of Rights. It may already have been stated that rights barely apply to authoritarian...
That sounds like good description. Of course, in fact, the good or otherwise would not be judged apriori on the basis or prejudice. There are by my re...
Not sure how my ambiguities confuse. I do not like the idea of employing the term Culture so as to include ethics in any form. As I may have said some...
Catch 22: Politics in Action: On the assumption that politicians accepted a fundamental three way split in social-ethics, as against a break down in s...
What are ethical values? On no basis is it a species of animal out there that can be examined and described. Therefore it is not a human being that ca...
It is evident enough that moral rules need to be made applicable to classes of subjects. Men, women, children, antelopes and zebras – or broadly natur...
As an average individual with a natural interest in ethical-political matters. Not a student of philosophy. It barely surprises me that our world has ...
On the basis of Freedom and associated values with their antonyms: This would form a three sided figure 1 Altruism < Freedom > 2 Anarchism < Ego > 3 T...
Natural and legal rights are a great invention, the former a protection against the divine right of kings, perhaps. The great feature of natural right...
There has been a division between politics and ethics that is probably the product of a semi-authoritarian government. Politicians may well keep their...
Anarchism in the sense of a society based autonomous individuals, may be an ideal for many people. It is derived from a belief in the ambiguous value ...
Long lists of ‘core values’ have been assembled, but it is obvious that they are seen more as ‘core virtues’ which is not the same statement. Sensibly...
Religions across the world today tend is to extol various forms empathy and fraternity, or altruism, but usually do so on the basis of obedience to th...
There are a number of diagrammatic representations of how ethical values relate - supposedly. Any such, or a new version or description, would be usef...
Our parliament is excellent with MPs who extol liberty and tolerance quite unreservedly. Except at the end they drop in a note, ‘within the law’. Nobo...
Nom doubt ethics as we understand the same, has evolved in various interesting ways. It is how we might use and improve our ethic that is the present ...
There are naturally popular ethical values, with perhaps a plethora of variations in terminology. Freedom or Liberty, Equality, Tolerance, all mean so...
Core Values that are being employed here are those that are irreducible, and not expressed in the form of rules. Freedom is a value. Equality is a val...
There appears to be a useful broad definition of the term Goods in economics. Ultimately ethics relates to the way we use these goods, including ourse...
A survivalist community requires only a minimal ethic. Anything more, if badly constructed, may be dangerous. Vegans do not survive where there is onl...
It is my contention, that simple values are such, because they do not actually exist, other than as concepts. On the other hand, compound values do ex...
To answer my own question. The opposite of simple is compound. It my firm contention that there are simple values, which are therefore opposed to comp...
Food is not a value. But it is efficacious for keeping us alive. There would be no ethical values without sapient creatures such as ourselves being al...
If they are ethical values, and not some other irrelevance, then they all valid for the purpose. They describe the human condition, or ethics as a who...
Each basic value contradicts one end-value while helping to define the others. The generalised description of the three end-values or forms of society...
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