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September 26 2011

adamcrowe

Freedomain Radio -- #1335 Sunday Show April 19 2009 - 00:49:00 Virtue Is A Relationship

"Virtue is a relationship. And it is a relationship where both parties need to bring value to the table – like any economic relationship. If there are rules, so to speak, like UPB ... we are not authentic if we are following rules – even if those rules are rational – we are not authentic if we are following them because they are rules ... The rules have to be alive, the rules have to be sensitive, the rules have to be reciprocal, the rules have to be relational. People will constantly try to put hooks in you based on their perception that you will obey abstract rules in a vacuum – despite what they, no matter what they do. Rules bow to evidence. Empiricism trumps abstractions every time. That's why people's behaviour matters a lot more than what they say. It's the constant reciprocity of how other people are treating you that is the challenge of ethics. How is the other person treating me now? How is the other person treating me now? How is the other person treating me now?"
Tags: RTR UPB ethics philosophy StefanMolyneux

July 05 2011

adamcrowe

Demand EUPHORIA -- Ten MORE Ways To Confuse a Child

Tags: parenting contradiction performativecontradiction UPB philosophy
adamcrowe

Demand EUPHORIA -- Ten Ways To Confuse a Child

Tags: parenting contradiction performativecontradiction UPB philosophy

June 17 2011

adamcrowe

BPS Research Digest -- Toddlers won't bother learning from you if you're daft

'Infants of just 14 months already have a nonsense-detector that alerts them to unreliable people, from whom they'll no longer bother taking lessons. "Infants seem to perceive reliable adults as capable of rational action, whose novel, unfamiliar behaviour is worth imitating," the researchers said. "In contrast, the same behaviour performed by a previously unreliable adult is interpreted as irrational or inefficient, thus not worthy of imitating." The new finding adds to a growing body of research showing children's selectivity in who they choose to learn from. For example, children prefer to learn from adults as opposed to their peers, and they prefer to learn from people they are familiar with and who appear more certain, confident and knowledgeable. "These results add to a growing body of literature that suggests that infants are adept at generalising their knowledge about the reliability of other people across varying contexts," the researchers said.'
Tags: psychology children learning empiricism skepticism UPB
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