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The Difference Between Moral Hazard and God’s Grace (via Ethical Houston)

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Moral Hazard is one of the more important concepts of our current economic situation. This is an intelligent, insightful article with a clear explanation of the phenomenon. I am a big believer in Christianity’s view of business ethics and here is a good one by a fine author. If you are an economics or business student, you will find useful material here.

James Pilant

The Difference Between Moral Hazard and God’s Grace   If corporations are considered to have most of the same rights as humans should they also be entitled to Grace? Last summer the Supreme Court decided that corporations had the right to make unlimited contributions to political candidates.  For a number of years labor unions have also been able to make contributions to political campaigns.  This ruling is just another incident where the law has held that corporations have many of the same rights … Read More

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The Malcontent (via A Lonely Philosopher)

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This is angry. This is a non-conformist, a deviant, doesn’t play well with others, etc. etc.

Fantastic, I loved every syllable. In a world where the obscenity of “emotional intelligence” is taken seriously, it’s wonderful to hear some intelligent resistance!

To the gallant author, “Write your book. I’ll buy a copy, maybe three or four and you are a philosopher in my book, any day.”

Keep up the struggle, You are not alone.

James Pilant

The Malcontent ‘If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.’ (Epictetus) An employer once told me that I don’t ‘sell myself’ enough, to which I replied that I don’t sell myself at all. Of practical necessity my labour is available for hire for around forty hours a week: the best hours of my life, the hours that run on to my grave. But I am most definitely not for sale. … Read More

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Discarded (via marcelgomessweden)

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Art and mood. A story in a picture.

(There is a lot of amazing pictures on this site!)

JP

Discarded I must be honest, i´m surprised how terribly easily forgotten i am. … Read More

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The Undead: Life Sciences and Pulp Fiction (via Science. Technology. Ethics. Art. Media. Culture)

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The idea that humankind could take control of evolution at this point in history is one I find compelling. The idea of the transhuman, a composite human of flesh and technology is soon to be a reality although the idea of cybernetic Koch Brothers reminds me of Dawn of the Dead without the comedy.

In the future, the mad billionaire will have incredible power to physically self manipulate while the proles will live brief painful lives of servitude to the technological demi-gods. I would hope for better but our society is a road map for the wealthy to manipulate and cheat their way out of social responsibility.

The world of the transhuman self proclaimed John Gaults may be our future, –

Ayn Rand’s cult of selfishness enshrined is a technological hell of demi-gods and worshipers.

James Pilant

The Undead: Life Sciences and Pulp Fiction cf. Director Prof Andy Miah will make two interventions at this remarkable event in Hamburg from May 12-14. The congress is unlike any other and will take place in film sets, which will be shot as scenarios, as though in a movie. Produced by the remarkable Mobile Academy, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 12 May TRAN … Read More

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Day 63: THE HALF-YEAR OF LIVING SELFISHLY (via The Apostate Scientist Blog)

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Thinking allowed. Not just allowed but expected. A delicious site.

I had a good time with this entry. I don’t totally agree which is, of course, a matter of little concern in these things. I do not hold myself as the ultimate authority of much and philosophy is definitely not something I have as strong a grasp as I should.

Good web site – Read!!

James Pilant

Day 63: THE HALF-YEAR OF LIVING SELFISHLY Freedom – you know it when you’ve got it and you know it when you haven’t. It’s an experience and has nothing to do with any observable circumstances. Take Hugh Lofting’s character, Dr Doolittle, for instance: desperate for the freedom to write, he threw a brick through a bank window and got himself put in prison. Interestingly, the animals who had been badgering him for help and dogging his footsteps and generally preventing him from writing bur … Read More

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Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World (via Georgetown University Press Blog)

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Human rights are always on the front burner of the culture wars. I have always been a fan of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and have always wished this nation and its component states would take this as a set of guidelines.

That is unlikely to ever happen but I appreciate the efforts of so many to support these values.

James Pilant

Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distinction of any kind,” possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance—and even legitimacy—of domestic r … Read More

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Are Outdoor Surveillance Systems the Big Threat Towards Privacy and Personal Integrity? (via Are Outdoor Surveillance Systems the Big Threat To)

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You’d have to look a long time to find a meatier or more significant blog post than this one. Our declining privacy is a crisis. Our lives as individuals are rapidly being diminished. More and more we exist as manipulated numbers, figures in a computer.

When are we going to get concerned? When is this going to become an important issue?

This is an important post. I am deeply impressed. I hope to see more.

James Pilant

We now have a community where it seem necessary to use modern technology to monitor people and property. We might risk that sensitive information about privacy will be compromised (as any computer system is leaking). States and authorities are not the only threat to personal privacy. Companies are taking more stringent measures for enhancing the viability of collecting detailed personal information about its customers, potential candidates for em … Read More

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Native American Code of Ethics (via theshywitch)

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I never saw this before. Quite an elegant set of ideas. Read and enjoy!

James Pilant

I recently found this on Stumbleupon and really loved it. The words resonated with me. I had to share this. Native American Code Of Ethics Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak. ~ Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance. ~ Search for yourself, by yourself. Do not allow others … Read More

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Charlie (via Imprints of Light)

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A sincere God Bless to Charlie and to Georgie, my wife’s cat who shared the same fate.

James Pilant

Charlie We were heading out as a family on Friday evening and had just driven a few hundred metres onto the main road when we saw the body of our cat ‘Charlie’ lying there.  He had only recently been knocked down as his body was still warm and limp, though quite lifeless.  I carried him home and we buried him in the garden the next morning. I remember reading a church magazine years ago where there was a section called ‘The Wise Owl”.  People wrote lette … Read More

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Moral Worth and Inclinations in Kantian Ethics (via manwithoutqualities)

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Few understand the importance of Kant in business ethics. I appreciate any enlightenment offered.

By the way, this is a beautiful web site. There is also a strong implication of heavy intellectual lifting going on, so be ready for a challenge.

James Pilant

Moral Worth and Inclinations in Kantian Ethics Check out my chum and occasional collaborator Chris Onof’s paper Moral Worth and Inclinations in Kantian Ethics just published at Kant Studies Online. There are few philosophers around today that write with such exacting precision, such intimacy with their topic and with such philosophical breadth that Chris Onof does. … Read More

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