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Great Ethics Documents and Artifacts Project

The Great Ethics Documents and Artifacts Project is an introduction to some of the writings, ideas and insights of great and famous ethics thinkers who loom large in history. At the same time, it includes the not so famous, but still great ethics thinkers who are  worth  learning about too.

A2ethics.org is interested in material culture. We not only like to think about ethics issues, we believe it is valuable to collect and consider ethics stuff. And things that are related to ethics.

We are not just "consumers" of ethics things, but also ethics conservationists. That's why we are starting this documents  and artifacts project.

Obviously, the ethics material world would be impoverished without its "founding" documents, from the sacred texts of religions to the breakthrough works of contemporary philosophers, such as Peter Singer.

But  it might also not be as rich if there weren't popular culture documents and other stuff collected as tools and artifacts to help people cultivate the life well-lived.

Take mirrors. How many times have you heard someone you know say, "Well, I just couldn't do it [something bad], because I want to be able to face myself in the mirror every morning."

So, the point is that mirrors can be important ethics stuff. And one of the great documents and artifacts of ethicsworld.

Join us as we gather and find great ethics stuff from the past and the present through the a2ethics.org Great Ethics Documents and Artifacts Project.

 

 

 

 

Generational Ethics Agendas: The Sharon and Port Huron Statements

Submitted by jadelay on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 17:33.
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The 60s generation Presidents have had their moment and their time. As Barack Obama predicted on the campaign trail, this is the moment and time for a new generation to establish their legacy. And to leave their ethics footprint on the world.

Is it really the case, however, that generations have their own ethics? Are our attempts to assign character traits to different generations actually harmful? Is it really better for us to categorize the way we think the world should work only through a generation's eyes? And should we assume that a generation is always of one mind and that its body moves in rhythm to the same music that it shares?

In this podcast, the first in our Great Ethics Documents Project, we are trying to offer new ways to think about these questions. We have found two documents we believe can help. Two different ethics visions of the world at the time of the Cold War. From the same generation that grew up in the Cold War shadow.

Has the world passed these Statements by, so that they have become just another kind of 60s leftover? Or do they remain relevant to today's ethics concerns?

Here they are, the unadorned and free thoughts about the prospects for the free world: The Sharon Statement outlining the principles from the young conservatives who started the Young Americans for Freedom and The Port Huron Statement, the manifesto that became the founding document of the New Left.

 

(Note: to find The Sharon and The Port Huron Statements online, go to:

The Sharon Statement: www.yaf.com/statement/

The Port Huron Statement: http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manife.... Then please scroll down to SDS Port Huron to access. This version is abridged.