Hi Richard, Squad,
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From: Richard Budd <rmb29@cornell.edu>
Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: MD A minor Question
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> And while I also agree that emotion is a
>powerful social motivator I can't help but feeling as though the term
>seemingly excludes any impersonal social relationship. Perhaps
>"Responsibility" is a better way to refer to the 'cement' of society.
>Unless you consider "responsibility" an "emotion".
Excellent suggestion Richard!. "Responsibility" fits very well with
social "arete". It's worth reading the discussion in ZAMM about arete.
The tragedy of the last quarter century is the erosion of social
responsibility as a value. In Lila, Pirsig describes how social values
are under attack from the biological and the intellectual levels.
Neither pay any heed to social responsibility. Thus we have hippies
IRRESPONSIBLY dropping out from society, and technologists IRRESPONSIBLY
pursuing intellectual projetcs without any ethical considerations.
Richard is right. Responsibility is the ethic of society - doing the
right thing - ARETE.
Regards,
Jonathan
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