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La gerarchia cristallizza la società

Nishi sottolinea che i tre valori etici fondamentali sono soddisfatti in gradazioni differenti a causa della struttura gerarchica della società. In merito, però, non fornisce spiegazioni convincenti. Sembra legittimare uno status quo tutt’altro che incline all’egalitarismo o a un’evoluzione culturale. Una volta giustificata la gerarchia, la società si cristallizza nella stasi.

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#hierarchy #society #ethics

A hierarchy of character traits

For the sake of simplicity, we can crudely schematise any given individual’s character into a hierarchy of types. The weakest kind of character traits are…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #character #traits #hierarchy

Living things as hierarchies without central control

All living things, says Feinberg, are nested hierarchies. ‘At the lower levels of an organism are organelles that are combined to produce single cells that…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #hierarchy #organisms #control #complexity

Nested hierarchies

there is another kind of hierarchy: one which is nested. Nested hierarchies can be visualised as concentric circles, with the smallest circle in the centre at…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #hierarchy #structure #complexity

Plos taxonomy

The PLOS Taxonomy consists of a thesaurus – the set of more than 10,000 terms and synonyms that are used as subject matter tags for PLOS articles – and the…

100,000 Articles - And The Data Scientists Who Mine Them - Bio-it World #article #hierarchy #social-sciences #science

Taxonomies, polyhierarchies and facets

A taxonomy is typically a controlled vocabulary with a hierarchical structure, with the understanding that there are different definitions of a hierarchy…

About Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies #nodes #hierarchy #vocabulary #taxonomy

The self as a nested hierarchy

functionally, the self is indeed a nested hierarchy. This is because the higher functions of self, such as self-consciousness, are not independent of lower…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #hierarchy #consciousness