[monochrom] Jonathan Haidt and the Five Moral Senses
University of Virginia moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivered a talk on new advances in his field last week. The video and a transcript have been posted by http://www.edge.org/Edge.org. Haidt whips us through centuries of moral thought, recent evolutionary psychology, and discloses which two papers every single psychology student should have to read. I've been arguing for the last few years that we've got to expand our conception of the moral domain, that it includes multiple moral foundations, not just sugar and salt, and not just harm and fairness, but a lot more as well. So, with Craig Joseph and Jesse Graham and Brian Nosek, I've developed a theory called Moral Foundations Theory, which draws heavily on the anthropological insights of Richard Shweder... That the five most important taste receptors of the moral mind are the following...care/harm, fairness/cheating, group loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, sanctity and degradation. And that moral systems are like cuisines that are constructed from local elements to please these receptors. So, I'm proposing, we're proposing, that these are the five best candidates for being the taste receptors of the moral mind. They're not the only five. There's a lot more. So much of our evolutionary heritage, of our perceptual abilities, of our language ability, so much goes into giving us moral concerns, the moral judgments that we have. But I think this is a good starting point. Read the full story at http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge323.htmlEdge.org.
[monochrom] Awe and the Machine... and machine-made helplessness
Today we are less likely to feel awe in the presence of our machines than we are to experience what historian Jacques Barzun called machine-made helplessness. Visiting the Paris Exhibition in 1900, the American writer Henry Adams saw something so remarkable he compared its influence to that of the Virgin Mary. It was a hall filled with machines - early power generators known as dynamos. Watching them at work, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross, he wrote in The Education of Henry Adams. The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old-fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm's-length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring. Adams wondered if he should pray to it. Such awe and the attendant feelings of humility it inspired in Adams were not uncommon at the time, particularly in the United States, where technological enthusiasm ran high. In the 1850s, the U.S. Commissioner of Patents was so overtaken with excitement about the country's many new machines that he declared, A steamer is a mightier epic than the Iliad. A writer in DeBow's Review opined, The great Mississippi Valley may emphatically be said to be the creation of the steam engine, for without its magic power ... what centuries must have elapsed before the progress of arts and of enterprise could have swept away the traces of savage life. Perhaps these machines had to be viewed with awe; industrialization was such a culturally disruptive force that people had to find a way to cope with its effects. Investing supernatural powers in the machines that ushered in that revolution was one way of doing this. http://incharacter.org/observation/1awe-and-the-machine/Link
[monochrom] #mRIF: Mary Pill-Poppins
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Re: [monochrom] Jonathan Haidt and the Five Moral Senses
ahja, guter mann, der haidt.. ..gerade im bereich der psychologie positiver emotionen ist der momentan höchst beliebt und einflussreich. für weitergehend interessierte sei seine homepage empfohlen, von der die meisten papers frei runterzuladen sind: http://people.virginia.edu/~jdh6n/publications.html außerdem, zu seiner moraltheorie, eine homepage mit online-fragebogen: http://www.yourmorals.org/ test your morals! Am 01.08.2010 17:23, schrieb das ende der nahrungskette: University of Virginia moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivered a talk on new advances in his field last week. The video and a transcript have been posted by Edge.org http://www.edge.org/. Haidt whips us through centuries of moral thought, recent evolutionary psychology, and discloses which two papers every single psychology student should have to read. I've been arguing for the last few years that we've got to expand our conception of the moral domain, that it includes multiple moral foundations, not just sugar and salt, and not just harm and fairness, but a lot more as well. So, with Craig Joseph and Jesse Graham and Brian Nosek, I've developed a theory called Moral Foundations Theory, which draws heavily on the anthropological insights of Richard Shweder... That the five most important taste receptors of the moral mind are the following...care/harm, fairness/cheating, group loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, sanctity and degradation. And that moral systems are like cuisines that are constructed from local elements to please these receptors. So, I'm proposing, we're proposing, that these are the five best candidates for being the taste receptors of the moral mind. They're not the only five. There's a lot more. So much of our evolutionary heritage, of our perceptual abilities, of our language ability, so much goes into giving us moral concerns, the moral judgments that we have. But I think this is a good starting point. Read the full story at Edge.org http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge323.html .
[monochrom] Wikileaks Insurance File
die meldung war heute vormittag zuerst auf orf.at zu lesen, ist jetzt natürlich wieder weg. seltsam, daß heise.de immer noch nicht davon berichtet: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance-file/ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,709446,00.html apropos: war jacob appelbaum nicht mal in residence bei monochrom? -- Rainer Fuegenstein r...@kaneda.iguw.tuwien.ac.at -- Der Mensch ist die Krone der Schöpfung. Der Österreicher ist die Schöpfung der Krone. --
[monochrom] #mRIF: Dear Lord Jesus...
http://bit.ly/crpLTT
