S2 Episode 25 - On the Precipice: Ethics for a Changed World with Christopher K. Gilbert, Ph.D., Part 2

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Morality is in the talking, Ethics are in the walking
• Old moral institutions need to adapt to modern-day challenges
• People need a solid ground to make ethical choices
• Ethics of leadership in the United States
• The issue with seeing the world in black and evil
• Being aware of our higher and lower natures
• Are revolutions as a reaction to systematic problems still unethical?
• The myths and stories we tell ourselves
• Building trust with others can only improve quality of life
• A conversation about moral progressivism
• Scouts, Pioneers, and Settlers
• We all want to advance civilization

QUOTES

Christopher: "The best way to think about morality is that it is the guidelines, the guideposts that tell us in our cultures, in our groups, in our families what's right and what's wrong. Ethics are the actions that we take after we evaluate that set of standards that we're using."

Christopher: "As our capacities as individuals and societies grow, we find that the old paradigms no longer answer the new questions."

Scott: "I was thinking we should never be relying on institutions at all to provide ethical guidance. After all, as you seem to point towards in the book, ethical decision making is an individual choice where we have to struggle with and take upon ourselves the challenge of wrestling with these situations that we face and coming up with decisions for our own."

Christopher: "It's all the little choices we make that build up to the largest offenses."

Christopher: "If we put ethics in the perspective of good and evil, I think we miss out on the idea that all of us are in this continuum and sometimes I make higher nature choices, and sometimes I make lower nature choices."

Christopher: The idea of building trust with others goes to the most fundamental roots of the way that we work with one another even in a world where people don't believe in four-way stop signs.

To find out more about Christopher, please see the links below.

• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Edge-Reclaiming-Ethical-Choice/dp/1631954059
• Website: https://www.nobleedgeconsulting.com/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckgilbert9/

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