UK Today
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:39 am
UK Today
Our present convention of dividing politics-ethics in linear way is clearly simplistic.
This country today, in ethical-political terms, is at least a fairly stable and law-abiding society. Setting lawless-chaos aside that leaves what is bound to be a compromise between three end-values or forms of society – in a triangular layout.
Between what may approximately be described as anarchism, tyranny, and altruism.
Freedom, for instance, is a value shared by anarchism and altruism. Duty is shared between altruism and tyranny. Ego is shared between tyranny and anarchism.
We have what is described as a compromise between individual liberty, and the state, with a reference to altruism that is really as a ‘nice’ form of anarchism in which everyone is abjured to love their neighbour misinterpreted as an egalitarian love-in.
We employ ‘things’ such as money, as if they are values. Whereas it is purpose of things that denote the value.
Our present convention of dividing politics-ethics in linear way is clearly simplistic.
This country today, in ethical-political terms, is at least a fairly stable and law-abiding society. Setting lawless-chaos aside that leaves what is bound to be a compromise between three end-values or forms of society – in a triangular layout.
Between what may approximately be described as anarchism, tyranny, and altruism.
Freedom, for instance, is a value shared by anarchism and altruism. Duty is shared between altruism and tyranny. Ego is shared between tyranny and anarchism.
We have what is described as a compromise between individual liberty, and the state, with a reference to altruism that is really as a ‘nice’ form of anarchism in which everyone is abjured to love their neighbour misinterpreted as an egalitarian love-in.
We employ ‘things’ such as money, as if they are values. Whereas it is purpose of things that denote the value.