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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

2017-01-21

Life-and-death thought experiments are correctly unsolvable

Moral dilemma should not be seen as puzzles to be solved – but sources of insight for living in complexity. People have concerns about the psychological effects of endlessly playing shoot-em-up video games but I sometimes wonder whether doing moral philosophy is just as corrosive. A worryingly large proportion of ethical thought experiments involve fantasies […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Choice, Complexity, cultural factor, Dilemmas, Moral Fabric, Paradox, values Leave a Comment

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