From kristie_miller at yahoo.com Mon Jul 2 12:19:09 2018 From: kristie_miller at yahoo.com (Kristie Miller) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 12:19:09 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] Matthew Hammerton: Three Fault Lines in Ethics Thursday @ 3.00 Message-ID: <68310F4F-B81F-45EE-A5A3-B09A4E6C4D77@yahoo.com> Three Fault Lines in Ethics When classifying moral theories, which categories are most fundamental? A traditional answer to this question divides moral theories into consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. However, I argue that this division is non-exclusive, non-exhaustive, and unhelpful because it conflates different areas of concern in moral theorizing. I then suggest that there are three fundamental distinctions (or fault lines) we should use to classify moral theories. They are the relative/neutral fault line, the normative priority fault line, and the value-maximizing/non-maximizing fault line. Each of these fault lines is logically independent of the others, and each reflects a different area of concern in moral theory. Furthermore, thinking of moral theories in terms of these fault lines can help us to clarify old debates (e.g. between utilitarians and Kantians), see new theoretical possibilities, and make progress in comparative ethics. The Muniment Room, Philosophy Department, University of Sydney. Associate Professor Kristie Miller ARC Future Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room S212, A 14 kmiller at usyd.edu.au kristie_miller at yahoo.com Ph: +612 9036 9663 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qUEQCZYM2VFm46oqszqs47?domain=kristiemiller.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjd at cybersydney.com.au Mon Jul 2 12:21:05 2018 From: sjd at cybersydney.com.au (Sandra J. Darroch) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 12:21:05 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] former pm john howard to address blackheath philosophy forum Message-ID: * * *OUR CIVILISATIONAL LEGACY* Former Australian Prime Minister the *Hon. John Howard *will address the Blackheath Philosophy Forum on Saturday July 14. As part of the Forum?s 2018 program on *Western Civilisation*, Mr Howard will refer to the long traditions of Greco-Roman civilisations, the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the Enlightenment?s ?revolution of the mind? to make the case that our education system at all levels has seriously neglected and undervalued this inheritance, and that ?appreciating it is not an exercise in cultural triumphalism, rather recognition of a complex and enduring historical reality.? *John Howard*is chairman of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation which has recently been the subject of controversy over the decision by the Australian National University to cancel an earlier plan to permit the Ramsay Centre to establish a course at the university on Western Civilisation. *Date: Saturday July 14.* *Time: 4pm-6pm.* *Place:*The Blackheath Philosophy Forum meets at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, (entrance from Park) 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at a nearby pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. 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Darroch) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:18:49 +1000 Subject: [SydPhil] blackheath philosophy forum July 7 Message-ID: <01ea940a-8883-dfed-886c-58ef76996050@cybersydney.com.au> *Blackheath Philosophy Forum 8 - Saturday 7 July* *ONE WORLD, TWO EMPIRES* With specific reference to China and the United States, our speaker, *John Keane, Professor of Politics at Sydney University and Director of the Sydney Democracy Network*.will explain why empires have played a vital role in shaping our sense of world history, why empires with a genuinely global footprint are rare; and why our planet, for the first time in human history, is shadowed by two globally entangled empires marked by different aims and practices. Professor Keane will call for an honest debate that gets over the embarrassed aversion to using the word empire. *Date:*Saturday July 7. 2018 *Time:*4pm-6pm *Place:*The Blackheath Philosophy Forum meets at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, (entrance from park side of Hall) 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at a nearby pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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They are the relative/neutral fault line, the normative priority fault line, and the value-maximizing/non-maximizing fault line. Each of these fault lines is logically independent of the others, and each reflects a different area of concern in moral theory. Furthermore, thinking of moral theories in terms of these fault lines can help us to clarify old debates (e.g. between utilitarians and Kantians), see new theoretical possibilities, and make progress in comparative ethics. 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