Morals change – partly because morals are inherently uncertain. Morals change when the situation changes. People behave differently in war and peace for example. Defining such changes in advance can be difficult and...
Read MoreThis blog note is an unfinished attempt to say something about the basis of ethics, legitimation, delegitimation and the struggles around them in the NSW country town of Narrabri, and the surrounding Narrabri Shire. While this...
Read MoreThis is part of the Change in Legitimacy in Australia argument, but got a bit too long for that. It at pretty low level of analysis. But the point appears to be that the context of legitimacy struggles in Narrabri, and Australia...
Read MoreIntroduction: Characteristics of Legitimacy Legitimacy is an awkward subject, because it does not exist by itself, it exists in a series of potentially shifting relationships. It exists within complex systems, with the problems...
Read MoreI shall argue that ethical questions are vital but fundamentally irresolvable and so the questions become: How do people build and reinforce an ethical system? How does, or to what extent does, that system affect human life?How...
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