[lbo-talk] Moral Foundations

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Dec 24 21:47:15 PST 2008


On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:47:30 -0800 Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> --Hypothesis: the "actual moral impulses" that people feel are a product
> of social relations. Thus capitalism does not simply censor some
> authentic, preexisting morality; rather, it creates "authentic" moral
> impulses that are construed as natural by the people in a capitalist
> society.

So far so good. But then there's dat ole debbil dialectic. "People" aren't just the passive creatures of their social order. They start to get notions of their own... and then watch out.

The interesting thing is that some of these notions can be accurately characterized as "moral" notions.

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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org



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