My moral philosophy and moral philosophy chooser
Hey team,
For one of my classes, we had to write an interface that would help users perform a selection task, such as choosing a new car or university. I chose to try and sketch a system that would help users choose an appropriate overarching moral philosophy.
In the course of the assignment, I ended up writing ten pages about what I think about religion, the moral system I try and live by, and the thinking that has gotten me to this point. It's kind of scattered in general, and I ran out of time to go back and clean it up. Still, I like my Crashing Spaceship philosophy, and I'm really interested in what other think about it.
It's a Word document, if you can't open it, email me and I'll email you the text or something. It's too long to cut and paste it here.
The paper
posted by Nate at 3:07 PM
1 Comments:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reflective-equilibrium/
Are you familiar at all with this notion of "reflective equilibrium"? It's come up in some of the readings for my (very cool) seminar on distributive justice. Having just read this encyclopedia entry, I realize that I have only a tentative grasp on the concept, but I think a simplified conception of it is relevant to what you're doing here. We all have concrete judgments about what's the right thing to do in certain situations, as well as abstract principles that we try to follow as a rule of thumb. Much of our moral reasoning is a process of comparing our judgments and principles, revising either of them when they conflict with a belief (judgment or principle) we hold more strongly--sort of what I was getting at with your reductio of utilitarianism.
I might comment on the crashing spaceship morality itself later, if I can get my shit together.
CT
6:42 PM
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