DVM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Martha Nussbaum, United States Agency For International Development, Social Contract
26 Mar 2018
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Understand development ethics as an essential dimension of international development. You have done all the good possible in this life (like karma) Truth: the universe has one dimension of truth and other dimensions of untruth, only the truth exists, not the untruth. The untruth is all the lies and evils. Ethics is the di erence between right and wrong but they are subjective because they depend on personal morals and values. In order to have equal goals and outcomes, you have to negotiate between the di erent groups. Why does it matter: you want to do good because you want others to do the same to you, needed to live in society, duty to be morally good. High mindedness: liberty, morality, justice, don"t always have enough commitment in practice but the dialogue can be bene cial. Promoting a speci c way of life: socialism, communism, etc, di erent ways of practicing life or livelihood.
