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Thursday, October 15, 2009

"Faith and Morals" by Yasuyuki Suzuki

http://www.slideshare.net/alsfakia/faith-and-morals#text-version
http://rc.moralogy.jp/rc-e/The%20International%20Conference/123-140-Suzuki.pdf
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"A common morality required of us in the global age of present human society"
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We are in a society globalizing to a depth and scale previously unseen. A common morality means here the ethics and morals in this human society penetrating spatially different cultures, structurally different life spheres, and historically different periods. 
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We will be able, by means of elucidating the common morality, to raise the standard of ethics and morality.
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For example:
1) Up until now in bio-ethics, what is called "informed consent" has not been taken seriously. But now in every country, based upon the stress placed on the principle of individual autonomy, it has come to be an indispensable part of bio-ethics.
2) Fundamental human rights, and similarly accompanying this, fundamental human duties, have come to be realized as the foundation for all ethics/morals.
3) In the field of business, accompanying the revolutionary globalization of market, "moral codes of conduct for multi-national enterprises" doing business throughout many different nations and cultures, have come to be formed. The philosophy and rules of the WTO have become common rules for economics and business for mankind.
4) Even in "information ethics", included in the ethics of information correspondence, common guidelines for each country are being formed.
5) The life activities of human beings have come to surpass one's own national borders.
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At this time, how can opposition of religious and fundamental world perspectives be overcome? Can a peaceful place of interchange be created in the ethical/moral dimension?
This has become an important topic.At the meeting, a common morality with this type of meaning will be discussed across each academic field.
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The following problems will be talked about throughout the discussion.
1) Can we share a common morality?
2) What should be done in order to bring about the formation of a common morality?
3) What do the contents of a common morality consist of?
4) What step should be taken in order to realize values included in a common morality?
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(2) The second theme:"The Investigation of the theory of 'moralogy' as a moral science advocated by Chikuro Hiroike, and of its practical ethical/moral system 'supreme morality' as a common morality."
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The founder of the Institute of Moralogy, Chikuro Hiroike,
distinguished,
from 'conventional morality' (ordinary morality) based upon the human instinct of self-preservation,
the morality of the spiritual leaders of the world (Confucius, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus Christ) who showed that a superior ethics/morals exists.
In addition he researched the tradition of ethical/moral thinking centering on the Japanese Imperial Family.
This superior morality he called 'supreme morality'.
Each nation should have had such a superior morality.
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http://rc.moralogy.jp/rc-e/2002ICEM.htm
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IMPLICATIONS OF A MORAL SCIENCE :
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED061738&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED061738
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ECONOMICS AS A MORAL SCIENCE :
http://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v59y1969i1p1-12.html
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