RED ----- harm / help -- acts have consequences
GOLD ----- golden rule fairness -- people have rights
GREEN -----
the inner side -- blameworthiness
to more positive virtues
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MIMIMAL ETHICS
ASPIRATIONAL ETHICS
as looking to
as seeking to cultivate
STANDARDS OF
Fuller CONDITIONS for C.A.R.E.=
MINIMAL DECENCY
COLLABORATIVE AND RESPECTFUL
for our common life.
EXISTENCE
Duty ethics usually expressed
in
Aspirational ethics usually expressed in
negative -- i.e. Don’t
do A, B, C, etc.
ways of coming to life more fully.
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The RED of blood-harm
The RED of heart --
of beneficent and
Actions
have consequences.
compassionate actions done --
in the light of deepening understanding
Do not
cause harm to yourself, others
of the nature of community --
and the
conditions for communal life.
the human and more than human community.
The
GOLD of caution
The GOLD of golden care for others
and for their own conditions for growth
Persons (and perhaps other beings)
in the light of deepening understanding
have rights
of the nature of persons
(or perhaps the inner worth of all beings)
Golden Rule Fairness =
Golden Rule Compassion =
(in negative form)
(in more positive form)
Do not
do to others what you
Realize how we arise from a common origin
would not want them to do to
you.
and are intertwined in a common life
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GREEN
of responsibility in terms of
GREEN of responsibility in terms
blameworthiness
of ability to choose one’s response
Responsibility in this sense is
To realize that there are always at least
a function
of knowing and willing.
two ways to relate to anything:
a small-minded way and
a large-minded way.
Responsibility
in this sense is
Responsibility in this sense is
diminished
the increasing ability to choose one's response.
by ignorance and deception
Developing the virtues -- think of the
(against
knowledge --
five wonderful mindfulness trainings
the "informed" aspect
of informed consent)
See my shortened form in the
and
"Gross vice -- virtue -- subtle vice"
format
by force or threat of force
This is a process of becoming more
(against
freedom --
awake and alert to who we are and
the "consent" aspect
who others are and how to come tol
in informed consent)
live life more fully in collaborative ways
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