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Putin’s Philosopher Alexander Dugin, a fascist political strategist who has been dubbed 'Putin's Philosopher He and Putin appear to be relatavists who do not think there is fundamental ethical ‘right and wrong’. They are a form of nationalist, and we should simply accept that as an equal philosophy ...

Capitalism is not a social system it is the rule of the wild employing money instead of teeth Its history is that of sharp edges being smoothed enough to make it acceptable or at least avoid revolt. Where a commodity is suddenly in short supply unit prices still have to cover production costs which ...

The Church of England would seem to have reaffirmed the primacy of conventional marriage. Which is perfectly logical. Equality is the absence of class rule, and not people deciding what they want and making it a right. The Church might also use the modern term altruism, rather than the ethically ind...

Polarised Nations Linear, Binary, and Polarised attitudes are one the great banes on this world. It may be seen today in the USA with rabid debates about gun law and abortion. Every country has some form of constitution, but it the social purpose of that constitution which is fundamental and must be...

Kleptocracy The great mistake of much religion is in portraying ethics in terms of purely personal relationships. If everyone is ‘nice’ we may still have a world in ruin or as a servile state. Religion that portrays ethics as based on outright obedience to ‘god’ and authority, promotes the servile s...

A subject that is pronounced on after people have already decided what kind of ethical society they support. It also attracts absolutist statements such as the present report that the USA is banning abortion. The USA may well leave it to the individual states to decide on policy, but that may simply...

Indolent and Feckless In the binary view of ethics to be indolent and feckless is far from a virtue. But this oversimplifies. In a multi-dimensional ethic a person like that has minimal contribution to society. Making this a universal quality undermines the whole of society so that survival is a que...

Kleptocracy Musk and Twitter. As a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources. It is in reality one form of Tyranny or extreme authoritarianism. Best or worst exemplified by Russia and China today. But it may be arrived at in a couple of ways – either by...

War Crimes It is fatuous, accusing Putin of war crimes. Such crimes are what one or other sort of democracy commits, by ‘mistake’, and is then prepared to accept the verdict of the democratic world. Murder is a concept that is quite different to an altruist democracy frpm what it is to a tyranny. Co...

Rights and Duties It may have been said before in some form but is worth reiterating. We have charters of Human Rights. These purport to list the rights that individuals have – naturally or from ‘god’. Individual rights require society to respect those right with reciprocal duties to individuals. Bu...

Diversity Human diversity in our world arose through the spread of people into widely separate regions and continents. Thereafter adapting physically to the local climate and environment. Cultivating cultural, philosophical, economic and other differences. Many of these adaptations may have been per...

Economics The economic theory that suited the Industrial Revolution is almost certainly not what is urgently needed today with the present environmental and human emergencies. In the past the production of more and a greater varieties of goods, and maximising monetary profit, may have been appropria...

Everything we do has an ethical dimension
Politicians are obsessed with the term Free.
As in Free Trade.
In reality all that matters in commerce, trade and employment, is the regulations.
Are they consonant with altruist democracy.
And do they prevent us being in hock to tyranny.

Do we have a definition for War in this world as it is today, that is useful? We appear to be intent on avoiding a Third World War. In doing so we are tending to fight hot wars locally and hard luck for the country involved. Which means that world war is now changed in nature. It may be asserted tha...

The assertion that we are all God's creatures is an ethical viewpoint of value: assuming we live in a society with one common image of 'god'. In modern society everyone has and asserts the right to their own 'god'. Therefore the assertion has no ethical value. We must determine what the particular i...