PANETICS moral &ethics - Re: [Fis] further comments: AAAS

PANETICS moral &ethics

Dear FIS'ers
Oh how would have loved you to meet RALPH SIU who has started the PANETICS
SOCIETY in Washington with some senior administrators and advisors some years
ago to promote a framework to evaluate alternative courses of decisions and
what amounts of suffering is involved - short and long term, heavy and light
suffering. http://www.panetics.org
SIU also wrote TAO of SCIENCE in he 60ies published by Whiley and should be
visitited regarding an extra perspective on ethics and - what we are
concerend about - situation rooms.

Happy Easter
Heiner

> Ted,
>
> I think in this regard we should make a clear
> difference between ethics and morality. As
> scientists we are commited to ethics, i.e. to
> reflection on moral rules (="ethos"). Our
> special responsibility is to keep ethics alive
> as a continuous reflection on the problems (!)
> posed (also) by a universal code of morals
> (as in the case of UDHR and other such
> codes of conduct). Of course, any ethics
> presupposes also a morality (as its object)
> and... we cannot find a 'quiet place' where
> we 'just' reflect on morals without any connection to
> moral practice not to speak about the
> difficult relations between morals and politics
> which is not the same as ethics and politics.
>
> Rafael
>
>
>
> > >In another order of things, an officer of the AAAS (American Ass.
> > >Adv. of Science) contacted me some weeks ago, through Wolfgang
> > >intermediation. Seemingly, they are trying to organize an
> > >'Information Science' symposium and track for their annual meeting,
> > >next year in Seattle. Amazingly, they were already aware of FIS
> > >proposals, and they consider very promising the critical
> > >examination of 'information foundations' we are making. Let us hope
> > >that as the present ominous circumstances clear out, their project
> > >will survive and will get ahead...
> >
> > That's my doing, through Dale Doucette. I hope I did well, because I
> > focused on the more technical and promising of our discussions as a
> > real attempt at reinventing science. Some recent trends to somehow
> > drag politics into the discussion, to conflate an examination of
> > science with some "crisis" or another in world events, and to assume
> > that better system science will make the world heavenly makes me
> > question my recommendation.
> >
> > Really Pedro. Naturally there are lively discussions we can all have
> > about human justice and moral action, but it is a very slim
> > connection with the nature of information, even in the context of
> > self-organizing human societies unless you rely on a sophomoric gloss.
> >
> > Best, Ted
> > --
> > Ted Goranson
> > Advanced Enterprise Research Office
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-- 
Heiner Benking
http://co-forum.de/index.php4?HeBe
"There is no more delicate matter to take in
hand, 
no more dangerous to conduct, 
no more doubtful of success, 
than to step up as a leader in the
introduction of change.
For he who innovates will have for his enemies 
all those who are well off under the existing
order of things, 
and only lukewarm support in those 
who might be better off under the new".
                  Guess who wrote this... (N.M.)
My particular concern is the reception of change
in our genuine thinking and reasoning; 
something Bertrand Russel might have called
in "Man's Peril" <newthink> and what we
addressed in "Is Humanity destined to
self-destruct":
http://benking.de/caldwell.html
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