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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
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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