Well you’re strongly deontological plus some virtue iirc. The Mahabharata is unabashedly consequentialist.
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I am pretty much on the side of virtue ethics, but I think you are right that I have strong deontological roots. Those damn consequentialists and their epics... 🤮😜
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The defense in Indian epics tends to be interesting: we have to violate the rules to defend them, and intrinsic sense of personal virtue is what justifies it. The most famous verse of the Gita makes exactly that argument. Basically Vishnu incarnates to intervene in moral decay.
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Yep. I suspect there were no real traders in the Axial Age in the Jacobs commerce syndrome sense. I think that’s really traceable to 1400-1600 and early-modern mercantile cities. Spinoza might have been the first true philosophical trader.
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I was thinking about my model related to Jacobs growwiser.com/files/2014/08/ The key is that while the group has an essential and internally consistent moral code, it cannot be defended without breaking it.
So Kauravas breaks the moral code for himself, Krishna to guard the group.
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It’s been on display with Trump from day 1: he manages to break rules AND complain about being treated “unfairly” which implies other people breaking other rules (rules here = governance norms). Hence the cheating-at-golf subplot in my election live tweet.
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tbh, I made it through 4 years basically not listening to him. I see no signal. What you describe is def a powerful tactic if you can get away with it. That he kinda did, and people didn't stop listening, is to me a testament to the state of honor.
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I’ve been paying close attention. He’s a great study. There’s a lot of signal. Just not about the stuff you’d expect like actual policy matters.
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Do you mean studying the kind of stuff that works on people today or something more?
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Just a character study in archetypes, what responses to him reveals about US psychographics etc

