…Some people just can’t take a hint.
To return to the theme of a “Guide to Ethical Decision-making” it should be noted that to make a wise and good Ethical decision, it helps to know one’s Ethics. Then one recognizes whether the decision one is making is Ethical.
Then, for example, one recognizes early whether one wants to vote for a guy who regards women as merely sexual objects. [Recall an Access Hollywood video that came out three days before the 2015-2016 selection of a candidate to head their party. In the video a candidate is distinctly heard to say: “I can grab women by the cr==ch …” Those who did not mind having a crude (con-artist money-launderer, who didn’t pay his sub-contractors for their work), in the highest office of their country went right ahead and made him their candidate. Others voted in the election for someone of this character anyway.] Did they know Ethics?
An excellent way to know Ethics is to study the content of the References listed in the signature below. The material there is clear and written in plain, easy-to-read language.
At the very outset of Basic Ethics: a systematic approach, in the Foreword, a philosophical argument for its concept of Meta-Philosophy is offered. {How often have you read some Meta-Philosophy?} Then value-theory is offered as meta-Ethics. Then it gets to Ethics. …a logical procedure.
Once Ethics is explained and understood practical applications – such as how to decide who to vote for – are discussed.
The comments in that booklet on Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan turn out to be quite relevant these days!
Also see: wadeharvey.myqol.com/wadehar … ETHICS.pdf - which employs the literary device of a dialog, or conversation.
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