“Moral progress” is first and foremost what it takes for people to get along. An ongoing process at the individual and group levels.
“a lot of problems rarely discussed among EAs.”
While I’m floored by the civil, intelligent and sincere discussion I’ve recently found here at LW , the rootier problem to what is discussed often is, IMO, that no person seems immune to the avoidance of self-regulation. The imperative to do so noted in B. Russell’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech “The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior”(1950) in which he describes universal human desires that are insatiable.
Communities of those striving to self-regulate know they must be mindful of the constant maintenance required to balance individual and societal needs as well as wants.
cite: From Walden, 1854: “Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Also, Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean.
“Moral progress” is first and foremost what it takes for people to get along. An ongoing process at the individual and group levels.
“a lot of problems rarely discussed among EAs.”
While I’m floored by the civil, intelligent and sincere discussion I’ve recently found here at LW , the rootier problem to what is discussed often is, IMO, that no person seems immune to the avoidance of self-regulation. The imperative to do so noted in B. Russell’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech “The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior”(1950) in which he describes universal human desires that are insatiable.
Communities of those striving to self-regulate know they must be mindful of the constant maintenance required to balance individual and societal needs as well as wants.
cite: From Walden, 1854: “Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Also, Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean.