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2020-11-05

How to know who’s trustworthy

Knotty problems call for sound advice. Use philosophy to find the intellectually dependable amid the frauds and egotists Need to know We need others’ help to figure out what and how to think. Many issues are just too complex for us to tackle on our own. They’re often the subject of bewildering and vociferous debate, […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Honest Accounts, Institutions of Conversation, Institutions of Social Fabric, Trust, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-10-30

The Tragedy of the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong. Fifty years ago, University of California professor Garrett Hardin penned an influential essay in the journal Science. Hardin saw all humans as selfish herders: we worry that our neighbors’ cattle will graze the best grass. So, we send […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, common pool resources, Commons, Commons-Based Peer Production, Crisis of Consciousness, environmental governance, environmental justice, Environmental sustainability, Institutions, Institutions of Conversation, Moral Frameworks, Public goods, Social justice, Tragedy of Unmanaged Commons, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-10-22

The Obligation of Self-Discovery

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration. Why did I write all of this to you? Because I have never felt such a human closeness as I do with you, Madame, whose writing can express the whole gamut of emotions. — from a 1972 letter to Simone de Beauvoir In the fall […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Biocultural Gendering of Values, Equality, feminism, Gender, Identity, Social Construction of Gender, Social Identity, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-10-15

Neither nasty nor brutish

The Ik – among the poorest people on Earth – have been cast as exemplars of human selfishness. The truth is much more startling Slabs of sunlight break through the mist, illuminating the bright pastel ripples of Oribo Valley, the valley I’m named after. I’ve been given this name by the Ik people I’m living […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Competition, Cooperation, Human condition, Moral Accounting, Moral Fabric, Moral Frameworks, Moral Politics, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-10-05

When to break a rule

Differences do sometimes make a difference. There will be occasions when taking account of the particularities of an individual and her situation is appropriate, even obligatory for those charged with implementing the law – if not from a legal perspective then from a moral or practical one. This is where judgment comes in. In a […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, adapting, breaking rules, compassion, Complexity, Context, Ethical Logics, exceptions to the rule, Judgment, Mercy, Moral Accounting, Moral Frameworks, Paradox, particulars, rules, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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