Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Moral Value Pluralism

 

What is Pluralism? - PHILO-notes
 

The following are articles from Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

* We will base our discussion on the article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy above. 

Related topics

Axiology, the study of value and valuation, is related to this topic.  The following articles in Wikipedia discuss axiology:

Some questions on Value Pluralism 

  1. Why do people have different values?
  2. Are there some core values that all people or all living things share?
  3. Are there right and wrong or better and worse values or value systems?
  4. If so, how does one decide which are the right or better values?
  5. When there are conflicting values, how should we make good decisions?

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Isaiah Berlin - Two Concepts of Liberty


About Isaiah Berlin

Discovering Isaiah Berlin - Henry Hardy (Long Version) - Johnny Lyons

Please see more about Isaiah Berlin in the Isaiah Berlin page from Wikipedia.

Two Concepts of Liberty 

An Important idea of Isaiah Berlin is the "Two Concepts of Liberty". 


Positive and Negative Liberty (Isaiah Berlin - Two Concepts of Liberty)
Tom Richey

The above video and the following article provides an introduction to the two concepts of liberty.  
This program in Philosopher's Zone, Freedom or Liberty, gives another view of freedom and liberty.

Some Questions on the Two Concepts of Liberty

  1. Do people always need negative freedom before they can enjoy positive freedom, for example, gun ownership (a question from Joe)? 
  2. Are positive and negative freedom often in conflict or in tension? How do they interact with each other? 
  3. Is negative freedom and positive freedom a continuum (a question from Dr Wei)?
  4. What could be some problems with negative freedom?

  5. What could be some problems with positive freedom?

  6. Why do some people favour negative freedom?  What are the values involved?

  7. Why do some people favour positive freedom? What are the values involved?

Some possible answers are here.

    The Problem of Evil

      The Problem of Evil: Crash Course Philosophy #13 Introduction The problem of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the ex...