IUSL Interdisciplinary Networking Seminars

• Date
  Thu, Mar 14

  Time
  3:00 PM

  Website
  http://www.1.ccny.cuny.edu/ci/iusl

  Address
  Marshak
  City College of New York
  160 Convent Avenue
  

  Location
  Marshak, 418 N

  p: 212.650.5531

  Admission
  Free

• Event Details

  Zone morality blurb
  
  Professor David Weissman
  Department of Philosophy

  Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphasizes:  virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties or goods.  Zone morality introduces a third point of reference.
  
  Families, teams, schools, businesses, religious communities:  each is a complex--a system--created and stabilized by the reciprocal causal relations of its members.  These relations embody a system's moral code: meaning, the expectations, rights, and duties of its members.  Each system has a different code; members relate to one another in its terms.  There is no satisfying resolution if principles generalized from the moral codes of particular systems have parity in the public space. 
  
  Weissman shall discuss three points: i. the moral economy of social systems; ii. Historical reasons for the neglect of zone morality; iii. Conspicuous evidence that zone morality has decisive implications for social regulation and political practice.