ethical frameworks Quotes

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy put into thinking about social, economic, ethical frameworks for these systems. We think there's a very urgent need for this to happen faster.

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.