Comments on: The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent – Part I http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/ Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Bush Frame: Us vs. Them; Good vs. Evil; Intentions vs. Consequences « The Situationist http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-14072 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:58:15 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-14072 [...] perspective does not focus on intentions.  As Situationist contributor Mahzarin Banaji has argued, our moral obligation is more demanding than that:  “if we haven’t exhausted every [...]

]]> By: Sculpin » My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 18th through June 28th http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-3299 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:59:00 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-3299 [...] The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent revisited – Part I [The Situationist] – “First the bad news. There are known and established limits on the human ability to introspect and know… The bounds on rationality, the very ones that keep us from being smart, also keep us from being good.” [...]

]]> By: The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent - Part II « The Situationist http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-731 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:06:12 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-731 [...] The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent – Part I [...]

]]> By: HMW http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-707 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:36:20 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-707 US military-intelligence propaganda agencies deploy behavioral science through media assets.

Their goals are not the same as their target audiences and that manipulative advantage brings up issues of deception and democracy which are moral issues.

And this is an important reason to be ‘intelligent,’ to not end up an expendable pawn in someone else’s game NOR allow your neighbor to be turned against you by professionals.

]]> By: joefelso http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-610 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:58:49 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-610 Intelligence and goodness are slippery terms. If we support one over the other, or both together, it is according to a social definition of the terms. In our times, we apply both “good” and “intelligent” broadly, often as something people are rather than as descriptions of particular acts. Intelligence particularly is now roundly regarded as a thing–a possession that can be quantified and not an attribute of a particular act that may or may not be repeated in the next act. I value goodness and intelligence as aspirations–I try to act intelligently and behave in ways that might be described as good–but the traits themselves seem no more than a generalization based on a number of acts. The generalization doesn’t diminish the obligation to consider goodness and intelligence anew with each action. Though “the science of the mind” has diversified what we mean by intelligence, it also mythologizes and idolizes intelligence and has gone a long way toward privileging all its many forms. If intelligence and goodness are indeed inseparable, perhaps we should have the intelligence to recognize that good is not something we can be but something we can do.

]]> By: Samir Raiyani http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-135 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:51:49 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-part-i/#comment-135 Excellent piece! I’m looking forward to the “good news”. Also, we now do multiple choice in India – we just make it really really hard and there are at least 5 choices. :)

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