The Autonomous Democracy
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 1:05 pm
The Autonomous Democracy
As the sides of a triangle relate to its angles so do elemenary ethical values relate to end values.
The whole of sapient universal life and what it surveys, is the subject of ethics and described by its ethics.
Human life on this planet exists in an ethical relationship with itself and other life.
Morality or moral codes are based on that relationship and can be formulated accordingly.
Political – social – economic.
End values of human society may be described in four associated compartments or end value.
Three of these may be held to describe general conditions of stable society, and the fourth the absence of that stability, or a state or chaos.
Exact descriptions of these end-values may almost certainly be wrong – and depend on the basic values that are being employed. In particular perhaps, freedom, duty, and ego. Freedom as a basic value does not mean any absolute state of freedom, but that people and communities are free to act within the limits of associated values, as of durty-responsibility – and not free to act according to the contrary end values.
The basic values in association may concern both individuals and communities at various levels.
It is implicit that a basic value, freedom represents one side of the triangle, and is opposed to the end value of authoritarianism-tyranny.
Our human world today cannot be said to be represented by any one of the end values, country or state by state. And with much of the world in social turmoil, the whole human ‘society’ is in a state approximating to chaos.
If our own country approximates to altruist democracy, then we must be governing and socialising internally on that basis. But we operate in global chaos, and different rules must be applicable.
The very minimal ethic that take chaos towards social stability is the rule of law. At a minimal level this is imposed, as in the Laws of Hammurabi and the biblical codes.
Altruist democracies cannot treat the rest of the world, or the world as whole, as if doing so will make it altruistic. We may live globally on the basis of interdepence or semi-autonomy from other states or countries that are also measurably altruistic.
As the sides of a triangle relate to its angles so do elemenary ethical values relate to end values.
The whole of sapient universal life and what it surveys, is the subject of ethics and described by its ethics.
Human life on this planet exists in an ethical relationship with itself and other life.
Morality or moral codes are based on that relationship and can be formulated accordingly.
Political – social – economic.
End values of human society may be described in four associated compartments or end value.
Three of these may be held to describe general conditions of stable society, and the fourth the absence of that stability, or a state or chaos.
Exact descriptions of these end-values may almost certainly be wrong – and depend on the basic values that are being employed. In particular perhaps, freedom, duty, and ego. Freedom as a basic value does not mean any absolute state of freedom, but that people and communities are free to act within the limits of associated values, as of durty-responsibility – and not free to act according to the contrary end values.
The basic values in association may concern both individuals and communities at various levels.
It is implicit that a basic value, freedom represents one side of the triangle, and is opposed to the end value of authoritarianism-tyranny.
Our human world today cannot be said to be represented by any one of the end values, country or state by state. And with much of the world in social turmoil, the whole human ‘society’ is in a state approximating to chaos.
If our own country approximates to altruist democracy, then we must be governing and socialising internally on that basis. But we operate in global chaos, and different rules must be applicable.
The very minimal ethic that take chaos towards social stability is the rule of law. At a minimal level this is imposed, as in the Laws of Hammurabi and the biblical codes.
Altruist democracies cannot treat the rest of the world, or the world as whole, as if doing so will make it altruistic. We may live globally on the basis of interdepence or semi-autonomy from other states or countries that are also measurably altruistic.