Dear Pedro,
another way of putting the endo/exo perspective
is using the difference morality/ethics which:
normally we take care of moral problems from
an endo (first person) perspective by 'hearing' at
what 'conscience' says. But as things become more
complex it is better if we make explicit our moral
thoughts and at this moment ethics starts...
Rafael
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro Marijuan" <marijuan@unizar.es>
To: <fis@listas.unizar.es>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Fis] The Identity of Ethics
> Dear Rafael, Jerry, and all
>
> Perhaps another view of ethics (closer to Jerry's questions?) would
> revolve around the tentative conciliation between the first person view
> and the third person's. A recent fis session chaired by Stan and Koichiro
> dealt with that very problem (addressed towards scientific description,
> the "endo and "exo" perspectives). Say, once societies get
sufficient
> complexity, "ethical" problems erupt with increasing virulence
as layers
> and layers of complexity are added, and the "exo" environment
gets more
> and more untractable. Robinson Crusoe did not need any ethics in his
> solitary island. Put several thousand (or million) people there, and the
> ethical dilemmas will be a plague. Another way to treat that (in
> evolutionary-economic terms) would be "the tragedy of the
commons", and
> also the "public goods problem". In the game-theoretical
approaches,
> Nash's equilibriums and quite a few other constructs, relate to the
> conceptualization of this type of problems.... when the individual's
> fitness depends on a considerable portion of a "healthy" wider
group, but
> at the same time he or she can "steal" good chunks from the
common pot,
> provided other parties do not cheat either. It is the
"reputation" theme
> too...
>
> If the above is cogent, a fascinating body of theoretical stuff (in my
> opinion, neatly "informational" applies to ethical foundations
too.
>
> best,
>
> Pedro
>
>
>
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