This week in #WomeninEthics, we would like to spotlight the multiple award-winning philosopher and novelist, Dame #Iris Murdoch.
See our vid on her work here: https://youtube.com/shorts/RDeYxNetgp4?feature=share
"Virtue is... a task to come to see the world as it is.”
The household is where philosophy becomes architecture. And modernity, for all its comforts, quietly redesigned the household into something brittle: a consumption unit dependent on systems it can’t see, services it can’t afford under stress, and a social fabric it no longer maintains.
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https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/the-household-as-an-economic-and
#Preparedness #SkillBuilding #Stewardship #EthicsOfCare #MoralEconomy #Oikonomia #VirtueEthics #HumanFlourishing #PoliticalEconomy #Labor #Inequality #SupplyChains #Modernity #Economics
We don’t learn the truth about a society from its slogans. We learn it from the way ordinary people are forced to organize ordinary life — food, shelter, care, work, and the raising of the next generation.
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https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/the-household-as-an-economic-and
#SocialCapital #Household #SystemsThinking #Family #Governance #MutualAid #Preparedness #SkillBuilding #Stewardship #EthicsOfCare #MoralEconomy #Oikonomia #VirtueEthics #HumanFlourishing #PoliticalEconomy #Labor #Inequality #SupplyChains #Modernity #Economics
Al-Usūs wal-Munṭalaqāt Vol. II: Islamic Hermeneutics, Eschatology & Ethics of
Transition (Essays 5–8).
A rigorous Islamic scholarly framework for reading signs, history, and eschatology — and living with integrity during civilizational transition.
Read it on Substack 🔗
https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/al-usus-wal-muntalaqat-vol-ii-the
#IslamicEschatology #Dajjal #IslamicJurisprudence #IslamicScholarship #Hermeneutics #ComparativeReligion #PoliticalTheology #VirtueEthics
#CivilizationalStudies
‘How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil’
On virtue ethics and LLM alignment
“For the models, being bad all the time turns out to be both stabler and more efficient than being bad only in certain situations, like writing code. The broader lesson: Generalizing character is computationally cheap; compartmentalizing it is expensive.”
Some thoughts on what we "get" from our education.
Anthropic's new "soul document" (what they're now calling a "constitution") that instructs Claude how to behave is "a virtue ethics manifesto that is Aristotelian to its core," says Alan Z. Rozenshtein at Lawfare
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-moral-education-of-an-alien-mind
“People don't do good things because they're good people. They become good people by doing good things, even when they initially may act out of vanity. The latter is only human nature.” — Rutger Bregman, "How to start a moral revolution," The Reith Lectures
#QOTD #RutgerBregman #VirtueEthics #MoralDevelopment #ActionShapesCharacter #Vanity #habit #HumanNature
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/quote-of-the-day-5410/
Uehiro Oxford Institute
Pepperberry
Greg Lloyd
Andrew Ordover
Virtue-ally Unbothered
David Gross
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