Lived, applied ethics
that everyone participates in - the spontaneous value-judgements we make. The environment where we find ourselves angered or rejoiced at something which we perceive to be good or bad.
Perceived to be self-evident.
Thinking about ethics (course about ethics, academia, etc.)
As economics is the study of the economy, ethics (the field of study) study that everyday situations. There are normative ethics, and descriptive (?) ethics, the latter are responsible for describing the patterns and reasons for the applied ethics we experience in our daily lives.
Contradictions between people’s lived ethics necessitate a framework within which disagreements between different people’s subjective views can be reconciled.
Social pressure makes us act in a certain way, tells us how to act “properly” and what would be “improper,” through culture. We are raised in a context where controlling one’s feelings, restricting impulsive behavior, collecting oneself, etc. are viewed as necessary.
Drinking beers ϔ
We know when we feel awkward. After an “unduly long” silence, we will feel awkward. But how long is “unduly?”
Can you hear the silence, can you see the dark, can you fix the broken, “can you feel me?”
Language to think
Something about Vygotsky?
Recognizing something and putting it into words immediately puts it into a classification system.
Language is an interpretation layer between our understanding and reality?
Pascal thought that the solution to anxiety is religion
The start of ethics
Mythological / Religious approach
The idea that ethics was given to humans by some higher being (e.g., God)
Scientific approach
The distinction between humans and animals is that animal do not possess joint intentionality
Animals have “might is right” rules.