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Being Truly Humane: The Four Orders of Humaneness

Posted by Vinay 5 months, 1 week ago to Philosophy

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Ethicists could well design ethics classes around both real life and fictional drama, and interested readers could better their third- and fourth-order skills by analyzing drama.

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Posted by Lucky 5 months, 1 week ago

Thanks. Good ideas and principles there, and I am sure they can be refined.
Also good that you relate the ideas to the thinking of Ayn Rand.
I suggest that development on those lines would be more useful than commenting from the usual theological standpoints.

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  Posted by Vinay 5 months, 1 week ago
  
  Thank you, Lucky. The ideas are further developed in a coauthored book, and of course very much along non-theological lines.
  
  Here is the book: https://ethicspress.com/products/mode...
  
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Posted by blarman 5 months, 1 week ago

Regarding "the four orders of being humane":
First order: okay, but to what end? And who is the arbiter of whether or not one is "used by others?"
Second order: Again, okay, but what predicates this application of The Golden Rule? (How does one derive this view without calling upon the notion of the mystical?)
Third order: what is the context or standard against which one evaluates one's self? Without an objective third-party, this inevitably results in narcissism or misplaced hero-worship...
Fourth order: see third order above.

That being said, I completely agree that drama can be used to elicit critical thinking by the introduction of moral dilemmas and their potential outcomes.

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