Term
Ethics
used in 84 texts across the archive
“Ethics is concerned with creating practical models of human exchange against the background of the originary moral model of perfect reciprocity. Beyond this minimal configuration, there is no “just” or “good” society to serve ethics as a utopian model.”
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“If ethics is centered upon some good to be obtained, morality defers another kind of centering—the violent centering involved in sacrificial practices.”
“Disciplines stay alive to the extent that the tension between value and ethics is re-established, through the creation of various forms of “ skunkworks ” within disciplines.”
“While it doesn’t quite prove anything, doesn’t the fact that so many millions of people can be recruited into an increasingly apocalyptic leftism that in many cases at least cuts against individual economic self-interests suggest that for many, if not most, utilitarian ethics are extremely unsatisfying?”
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