A new way needs a new foundation: the principle of goodness, law, and society
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Article Title | A new way needs a new foundation: the principle of goodness, law, and society |
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ERA Journal ID | 35330 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | House, Ron (Author) and House, Gitie (Author) |
Editors | Kalantzis, Mary and Nairn, Tom |
Journal Title | International Journal of the Humanities |
Journal Citation | 3 (5), pp. 9-18 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2006 |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
ISSN | 1447-9508 |
1447-9559 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.705 |
Abstract | It is some two hundred years since the existing major political polarities first took shape, approximately the time since the last major revolution in foundational ethics, the overlapping introduction of Kant's principles and also of utilitarianism. Ethical ideas mould social and personal behaviour and expectations profoundly, yet frequently without recognition as cause or catalyst. At the recent UNESCO International Conference on Unity and Diversity in Religion and Culture, one of the authors introduced a new foundational ethical philosophy, the Principle of Goodness ([House 1]). This Principle expresses an ancient intuition about good and evil, which has found expression in the words and deeds of humanity's greatest souls - but always in examples, particulars, or implications, and not, it would seem, as an explicit statement of a grounding philosophical principle until now. As a result, many who respect and advocate what they intuitively see as basic standards of human decency and compassion often find themselves unable to argue successfully for their insights when faced with 'bottom line' or 'big picture' arguments, which use utilitarian or other outmoded theory to 'balance' competing interests - almost always to the disadvantage of the poor, the geographically distant, the numerically small, or the uneducated. By explicitly formulating the 'intuition of the soul', the Principle of Goodness provides a way to expose |
Keywords | law; social systems; ethics; principle of goodness; organisation of society; realism; third way |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500306. Ethical theory |
500104. Human rights and justice issues (excl. law) | |
449999. Other human society not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Authors retain copyright. |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Mathematics and Computing |
Queensland University of Technology | |
Event | 3rd International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities |
ISBN | 1863355847 |
Event Details | 3rd International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities Event Date 02 to end of 05 Aug 2005 Event Location University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xq8v/a-new-way-needs-a-new-foundation-the-principle-of-goodness-law-and-society
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