Standards are the Raw Materials of Virtue: He Who Controls the Standards, Controls Behavior
In one sense, virtue is how a society controls and manages behavior. Some systems and societies use virtue to produce beneficent outcomes, while others use virtue, at least as the societal standards define it, to produce power and control. Religions…
Coexist Part 3 The Exploiters and Influencers
This is part three of the Coexist series. It explores the exploiters and influencers introduced in Part 1. I was fortunate to take the advanced political science course in my undergraduate program. We read The Grand Inquisitor on the Nature…
Operant Conditioning, Path Dependency and Societal Revolution, Part 2
As in Part 1 of this series, first a disclaimer. I am of the philosophical line in the discussion below. I think we should teach and be models of virtue because it is right and good and not because…
