Reacting to Michael's posting: I find the continued loose use of 'fascism' obfuscating. In , e.g., Mussolini's writings, we find that fascism refers to a system of political organization based on the notion that the social system is more important than the individual (which for people is quite self-evidently true!). Individuals are bound together in 'fascia'. I find that I myself am an 'ecofascist' -- that is to say , I hold the ethical view that the health of our global environment is more important than the desires or needs of individual people -- or of organizations like corporations or states. In many cases it truly is "either jobs or environment". I offer one saddening observation -- but we must brace ourselves -- curing the diseases rampant in the world will clearly (as Malthus said) result in a devastating poulation growth. Cure those diseases that cause pain -- yes!, but I think we cannot afford to cure those that cause death.
Sadly STAN >Dear Colleagues, > >Jim asked how I related my view of >ethics in terms of integrity (completeness) >to the History Ethic defined in my book >Symmetry, Causality, Mind. > >The relation is this: > >I view it all as part of a theory of health. >The word "health" comes from the same >root in language as the word "wholeness". >Psychological health comes from integration, >and an essential part of this is the >process of remembering, i.e., bringing >the memory objects into an integrated structure >of mind. Thus one can regard the process of >gaining psychological health as an >example of the History Ethic. > >A memory object belongs to a person, >whether they acknowledge it or refuse >to acknowledge it. The basis of unethical >behavior is the individual who refuses to >acknowledge their own memory objects. >An example is the fascist, who lives a dissociated >life in which, to maintain this dissociation, they >must control all others. >The very processes of destructive behavior >to their own memory objects become the >same processes by which they try to destroy >others. > >So it is by refusing to remember, that the >non-integrated person, i.e., the person without integrity, >becomes an unethical person. > >best >Michael Leyton > >_______________________________________________ >fis mailing list >fis@listas.unizar.es >http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis