The ecological conditions that underlie much of human flourishing still receive scant attention from moral philosophers.While interest in philosophy of ecology has grown in recent years,ethicists are still reluctant t...The ecological conditions that underlie much of human flourishing still receive scant attention from moral philosophers.While interest in philosophy of ecology has grown in recent years,ethicists are still reluctant to grant ecological issues the status they arguably deserve.These issues are not restricted to custodianship of the natural world;they also pertain to our ability to enjoy love relationships and other passionate attachments.While the connection between human flourishing and love relationships has an ancient provenance,recently philosophers such as Harry Frankfurt,Bernard Williams,and Susan Wolf have emphasised it.Nevertheless,the ecological conditions of our passionate attachments remain obscure.This chapter investigates the extent that passionate attachments are underwritten by a delicate balance of ecological conditions.To do this,the author examines the effects of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus,SARS-CoV-2,which has threatened a key aspect of passionate attachments:our sociality.展开更多
A well-functioned society depends on its ability to nurture,attract,and deploy talents in critical sectors.However,the implementation of some meritocratic principles to allocate positions often leads to unjust social ...A well-functioned society depends on its ability to nurture,attract,and deploy talents in critical sectors.However,the implementation of some meritocratic principles to allocate positions often leads to unjust social hierarchies.Is there,then,a solution to meritocracy’s dysfunctional hierarchical effects?This paper attempts to answer this by drawing on the real-world cases of Singapore and the USA to investigate the relationship of toxic social hierarchies with meritocracy.It proposes three solutions to curb the unjustifiable social stratifications and the erosion of social cooperation often associated with social meritocracy.These reflections could help to shed light on the grounds for the ongoing debates on social hierarchies and provide valuable insights into how to weigh up existing socio-political structures.展开更多
文摘The ecological conditions that underlie much of human flourishing still receive scant attention from moral philosophers.While interest in philosophy of ecology has grown in recent years,ethicists are still reluctant to grant ecological issues the status they arguably deserve.These issues are not restricted to custodianship of the natural world;they also pertain to our ability to enjoy love relationships and other passionate attachments.While the connection between human flourishing and love relationships has an ancient provenance,recently philosophers such as Harry Frankfurt,Bernard Williams,and Susan Wolf have emphasised it.Nevertheless,the ecological conditions of our passionate attachments remain obscure.This chapter investigates the extent that passionate attachments are underwritten by a delicate balance of ecological conditions.To do this,the author examines the effects of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus,SARS-CoV-2,which has threatened a key aspect of passionate attachments:our sociality.
基金the Research programme‘Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies’,the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Ministry of Education,Culture,and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research,(Grant No.[024.004.031]).
文摘A well-functioned society depends on its ability to nurture,attract,and deploy talents in critical sectors.However,the implementation of some meritocratic principles to allocate positions often leads to unjust social hierarchies.Is there,then,a solution to meritocracy’s dysfunctional hierarchical effects?This paper attempts to answer this by drawing on the real-world cases of Singapore and the USA to investigate the relationship of toxic social hierarchies with meritocracy.It proposes three solutions to curb the unjustifiable social stratifications and the erosion of social cooperation often associated with social meritocracy.These reflections could help to shed light on the grounds for the ongoing debates on social hierarchies and provide valuable insights into how to weigh up existing socio-political structures.
