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Reply Wed 6 Jan, 2010 09:50 am
Hello,

I'll take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am a graduate student currently following ethics courses. I really like the subject and signed up here to expand my knowledge and read interesting things about philosophy and ethics in particular.
 
jgweed
 
Reply Wed 6 Jan, 2010 10:19 am
@Heidegger,
Welcome to Philforum.
One of the tasks of current philosophy might be the creation of an Ethical Perspective from the phenomenological work of Heidegger. As someone who generally takes an "existentialist" position, I too am interested in Ethics.
Regards,
John
 
Heidegger
 
Reply Wed 6 Jan, 2010 11:35 am
@jgweed,
Hey Jgweed, thanks for the reply! May I ask you a very stupid question probably. In my course we discuss ethics in the light of pre-industrialization society and society after that. in the industrialized society one has different moralities in different settings while before there was common morality. But in class there is a distinction made with regard to this pre- and industrialisation between platonic and aristotelian thinking.

Whenr esearching for both views I however don't become clear on what these two precisely entail. I know plato is from the meta-physical, idealism and form etc and aristotle more of Logic and substance. However because both operated and talked about many subjects i get confused since plato also has wuite a mathematical view on some things?

Could you maybe explain the two views and has the concept of industrialisation to be understood from a platonic or aristotelian way? I think aristotilian way right, because he talks about different functions of a human more which is a characteristic of industrialisation?

Thanks for the help in advance!
p.s. excuse me for my english i am not a native english speaker.
 
jgweed
 
Reply Wed 6 Jan, 2010 01:26 pm
@Heidegger,
Had I been able to sit in on the class and understand what is meant by post-industrial vs. pre-industrial ethical content, or how Platonic and Aristotelian ethics was characterised, I might be able to provide some perspective on the class discussion. However, since I cannot understand the terms from the context you provide, it is impossible to make any sort of meaningful comment.

For example, to say there was a "common morality" before industrialisation seems to ignore all the different ethical systems in classical and pre-industrial times. Even the halcyon Middle Ages, in which Christian ethics seemed pervasive, were broken asunder by the Reformation.
Sorry for not being able to help much.
 
Fido
 
Reply Wed 6 Jan, 2010 05:42 pm
@Heidegger,
Heidegger;117714 wrote:
Hello,

I'll take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am a graduate student currently following ethics courses. I really like the subject and signed up here to expand my knowledge and read interesting things about philosophy and ethics in particular.

I have never studied ethics, and I know it all...You may too...I mean formally studied...
 
Leonard
 
Reply Wed 6 Jan, 2010 07:32 pm
@Heidegger,
Hello, welcome to the forum. Ethics is one of the popular forums around here.
 
 

 
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