Philosophy, politics, and economics of cryptocurrency II: The moral landscape of monetary design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Bailey ◽  
Bradley Rettler ◽  
Craig Warmke
Keyword(s):  
Moral Landscape

The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110218
Author(s):  
John R. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
The Government ◽  
Moral Certainty ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ethical Response

Every year, hundreds of U.S. citizens patrol the Mexican border dressed in camouflage and armed with pistols and assault rifles. Unsanctioned by the government, these militias aim to stop the movement of narcotics into the United States. Recent interest in the anthropology of ethics has focused on how individuals cultivate themselves toward a notion of the ethical. In contrast, within the militias, ethical self-cultivation was absent. I argue the volunteers derived the power to be ethical from the control of the dominant moral assemblage and the construction of an immoral “Other” which provided them the power to define a moral landscape that limited the potential for ethical conflicts. In the article, I discuss two instances Border Watch and its volunteers dismissed disruptions to their moral certainty and confirmed to themselves that their actions were not only the “right” thing to do, but the only ethical response available.

scholarly journals “Des personnages de si près tenus”, TV Fiction and Moral Consensus

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Sabine Chalvon-Demersay
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Production Team ◽  
Moral Question ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
Literary Classics ◽  
The Way

How can we understand the adaptations of literary classics made for French television? We simultaneously analyzed the works and the context in which they were produced in order to relate the moral configurations that emerge in the stories to activities carried out by identifiable members of the production team, in specific, empirically observable circumstances. This empirical approach to the constitution of the moral panorama in which characters evolve rejects the idea of the pure autonomy of ideological contents, suggesting instead a study of the way normative demands and professional ethics are combined in practice, thus combining a sociology of characters and a sociology of professionals and showing how professional priorities influence production choices. This detaches the moral question from the philosophical horizon it is associated with in order to make it an object of empirial study. Adopting this perspective produces unexpected findings. Observation shows that the moral landscape in which characters are located is neither stable, autonomous, transparent, or consensual. It is instead caught up in material logics, constrained by temporal dynamics, and dependent on professional coordination. It is traversed by tensions between professional logics, and logics of regulation.

The Evolving Moral Landscape Of Palliative Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-673
Author(s):  
Myrick C. Shinall,
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Moral Landscape

Paradox of Europeanness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dace Dzenovska
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Landscape

The introductory chapter outlines the argument of the book by drawing on the first publicly debated refugee case in Latvia. It traces two public positions that emerged in relation to the case: one representing openness to difference associated with political liberalism and the other refusal of difference associated with nationalism. The chapter argues that both positions enact and defend particular regimes of inclusion and exclusion. Their emergence as morally and politically opposed positions in the context of postsocialist democratization and European integration in Latvia points to a tension that characterizes the contemporary European political and moral landscape, namely the imperative to profess and institutionalize the values of inclusion and openness while at the same time practicing—and also institutionalizing—exclusion and closure. For Latvians, then, becoming European after socialism meant learning to live inclusion and exclusion the European way. It meant learning to live the paradox of Europeanness.

Sex in School

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen-der Lee
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
Republican China ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Anatomical Information ◽  
Gender Division Of Labour

Nearly two hundred volumes of physiology and hygiene textbooks, together with governmental and other materials, are investigated in this chapter to illuminate the intricacies in drawing the moral landscape pertinent to sex education in early republican China. Frequent revisions of official directives testify to the fast changing political and intellectual arena of China. Shifted emphases between reproductive functions and puberty sexuality exemplify the professionals’ uncertainties in getting to the early teens. Pedagogical publication boomed and writers experimented on both textual and visual materials. Bio-medicine was flagged as entrance to learning one’s own body, but a healthier nation promoted in the New Life Movement eventually relied on the individual’s self-discipline not necessarily required of scientific erudition. Some may have found secretion system more useful than anatomical information to integrate physiology, psychology and pathology into the mechanism of sexual differences, so much so that a gender division of labour was proposed to fulfill both personal responsibilities and to echo contemporary political rhetoric. Not all endorsed such elaboration, however, and the zigzag between sexual differences and gender equality became a noteworthy parallel to the tug-of-war between sexuality and reproduction.

Commonsense Consequentialism, Moral Rationalism, and Options

2018 ◽  
pp. 156-175
Author(s):  
Dale Dorsey
Keyword(s):  
Moral Landscape ◽  
Moral Theories ◽  
Moral Requirements

Commonsense consequentialism seeks to embrace the importance of commonsense features of the moral landscape (options and constraints, in particular), while retaining the consequentialist focus on the outcomes of our actions. In focusing on options, this chapter argues that a central presumption for commonsense consequentialist moral theories—in defending both the “commonsense” and the “consequentialist” aspects of such a view—is moral rationalism, or the principle according to which one is normatively required to conform to one’s moral requirements. However, we have reason to believe that moral rationalism is probably false, and hence attempts to “consequentialize” commonsense moral theories face a substantial justificatory challenge.

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