Topic on UpTrust
ethics and philosophy
A live feed of posts and discussions about ethics and philosophy, ranked by who the most trusted people trust, not by likes or follower counts.
Log in and start voting to get personalized rankings.
10 postsUpdates live
Trust ranks through the site stewards' curated lens.
- onScriptural Relating: Towards an Interreligious Dialogue Methodology Inspired by Relatefulness and Scriptural Reasoningby
But this also comes with a kind of weightlessness: these values come with no history of exile, no text that has been wept over and argued about for millennia, no claims that specifically this is what God said and specifically this is what it demands of you.... My wife and I have recently been watching Poldark and I really appreciate Ross Poldark's generosity and attitude toward the people in his community. He finds ways to give people work, never a direct handout, which in the context of late 1700s Cornwall is a really important way of... Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: Nordhaus economics
The most consequential number Nordhaus shared the 2018 Nobel for work he had been doing since the 1970s: integrating climate science with growth to calculate the optimal cost of decarbonization. His central finding: the most important variable is not the temperature target.... Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: The Story
196 signatures, five treatments In a conference room in Paris in December 2015, delegates from 196 nations signed an agreement to hold warming below two degrees Celsius. By 2024, the global average had breached 1.5 for an entire calendar year.... What does the West owe to Christianity and Islam?: Secular critics
Three hundred and fifty-nine years Galileo spent his last nine years under house arrest for describing what he saw through a telescope. The institution that confined him did not formally acknowledge he was right until 1992. That is not a footnote in the debt story.... How should we judge wartime atrocities?: Consequentialists
Before the bomb March 1945. The United States firebombed Tokyo and killed approximately 100,000 civilians in a single night. In the five months that followed, sixty-six additional cities burned. Conservative estimates: over 300,000 dead from conventional raids. No hand-wringing.... How should we judge wartime atrocities?: Contextualists
After Okinawa June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa ended after eighty-two days. Over 12,000 Americans killed, 38,000 wounded. Japanese military deaths exceeded 77,000.... How should we judge wartime atrocities?: The Story
The room Concrete walls, bad coffee, a long table, August 1945. A map of the Japanese home islands pinned to the wall. On one side: casualty projections for Operation Downfall — 250,000 to over a million Allied dead. Japanese casualties several times that.... I’ve made this point in regards to trust on uptrust, that there may not be much merit to "trust" in general without the topic/thing you trust the person for. But others have made other claims.... I feel somewhere in between y’all on this—on one hand I’m like: there must be thousands of assassination attempts the Secret Service thwarts that we never hear about....