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Nothing exceptional to it. It's still a trolley problem. Speaking of “The Trolley Problem,” on p. 24 of Katz – Basic Ethics - see http://tinyurl.com/mfcgzfz - this passage is found: It is an empirical fact that people tend to hold any single one of their close relatives as more valuable than multip...

I agree with doing the least harm possible; but want to emphasize that there is a lot more to Ethics - the useful body of knowledge and the discipline of research and implementation - than that one derived maxim: Do no harm. As you can learn from the booklet, The Structure of Ethics, another maxim ...

In my book and other writings I offer a clear and relatively-simple (in a good sense of "simple,") system of Ethics. It deals with the what and the how]. It may be immediately taught by educators and parents all over the planet. In that sense it is universal. It is inter-subjective; in tha...

Wiki informs us that: the "Silver Rule" as it is sometimes called: 'don't do to others what you don’t want them to do to you ', appears in several works of Greek philosophy and also in earlier Jewish writings. It also appears in other traditions such as Buddhism and Confucianism. [/size] ...

I agree with what Logik wrote in the last post with respect to doing the least harm possible; but want to emphasize that there is a lot more to Ethics - the useful body of knowledge and the discipline of research and implementation - than that one derived maxim: Do no harm. As you can learn from the...

....Before we go too far astray, permit me to say this: William James, and other Pragmatists, would have liked the book, THE STRUCTURE OF ETHICS, had they seen it. James was excited about a passage he read which declared: The law was made for man; not man for the law. He agreed with me on the emphas...

If you read the STRUCTURE book, Logik, you would know that S, E, and I, function as classifiers. They are akin to segments of a spectrum - such as the Electro-Magnetic spectrum. They measure value. They are dimensions of value. They are described in detail in the chapter What is Ethics? which is cha...

Greeetings, surreptitious57

Aren't you going to tell the Readers what the "Silver Rule" is?

Just what do you have in mind?

I can phrase it in three words: DO NO HARM in the book I explain how this follows from the axiom: Make things morally better! -- as does all the rest of the system. It's all derived from that axiom and from the careful definitions of "Ethics" and "Morality." Ethics is defined in ...

You write: " Can you summarize it in five words or fewer? If I could I wouldn't have put in the effort to create that whole book :!: :!: BTW, why can't you read a book? If you went to school you would have to do so..... Couldn't you at least skim it - until you maybe found five words that were ...

How can we, working cooperatively, construct a sound Ethical Theory? For 55 years I have been thinking about how to construct better ethical theories than those with which we are familiar. By themselves, the conventional standard theories do not seem to me to have done the job. Yes, they make you th...

Prof wrote: The three major schools of thought in academic ethics are Virtue Theory (VT); Consequentialism; and Deontology. The latter is concerned with promises, contracts, rights, duties, obligations and imperatives (which it claims are universal and categorical.) The small social corner that I o...

I do indeed take sensible opinions seriously, including yours as I believe that your heart is in the right place. I hope that your popular style of writing will be popular... I note especially your optimism regarding the power of good people to make beneficial changes. Thanks for those kind words, ...

We need more programs in the model of The Marshall Plan, this time to install solar panels for the people of sub-Saharan Africa where a desert exists; and, to hold back further desertification, this program of aid ought turn their deserts into gardens. Some Israeli showed how it could be done when h...

I agree. With your permission I'd like to pass some of these ideas along to readers. It is brilliant of you, Eodnhoj7, to notice that about those maxims, those moral principles.

Send me a private message, telling me your name. I will see to it then that you get credit.


Keep up the good work!