@St_Rev Maybe of interest: http://ow.ly/vlnRF A contemporary Taoist arguing vs moralism. Via @willbuckingham Also http://ow.ly/vloe9
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@Meaningness@willbuckingham 'My trailblazing thesis leads us to vanilla 2014 progressive values' is anticlimactic.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@Meaningness The book also sort of fizzles a bit as well...6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@willbuckingham@Meaningness Huemer's paper http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Passivity.pdf … is similar but more convincing/more flattering to my preconceptions.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@willbuckingham I like a lot about that paper... I think its central insight is somewhat different; wide politics vs local ethics.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@willbuckingham Also isn't explicitly Daoist but it's still v. Daoist. "Don't fight for what you believe in" overlaps w/Moeller3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@willbuckingham Ethics is a collection of tools that recently have been misapplied in all kinds of ways.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@willbuckingham Nobody asks “what do we want ethics for, anyway?”2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@willbuckingham The eternalist assumption is universal: there is SOME RIGHT ETHICAL THEORY that always tells you what to do.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@willbuckingham Then people argue fruitlessly about what the correct one is. Or else flirt with ethical nihilism, which is also dumb1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@St_Rev @willbuckingham It’s not that we don’t know what the correct ethical theory is, it’s that there isn’t one. And then what?
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@St_Rev@willbuckingham My supposed ethics chapter starts: what can we do if there’s no general answer, but the matter is important anyway?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev This seems an obvious point, but apart from@willbuckingham’s book, I don’t know anyone who says it. Maybe Möller, not sure yet.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 5 more replies
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