You're touching on a lot of the themes of my work in this piece.
I talk about the 'ends-based' morality of consequentialism (utilitarianism, effective altruism etc) destroying immediacy. And that all this is mediated through money. The justification for today's action is that tomorrow you'll have more money and can take more effective action. But of course this just hollows out the present.
I have the same feelings about language as Fromm expresses. And I'd say to an extend about (intellectual, abstracted) thought too.
Everything is basically footnotes to McGilchrist in one way or another :)
FWIW, I would be wary of tarring all of EA with the same ends-based brush. There's a recurring (strongly argued on both sides) debate about the benefits of giving now v giving later, and at least until EA veered off in its rather odd longtermism direction, the 'give now' side seemed to be the slightly more strongly supported.
You're touching on a lot of the themes of my work in this piece.
I talk about the 'ends-based' morality of consequentialism (utilitarianism, effective altruism etc) destroying immediacy. And that all this is mediated through money. The justification for today's action is that tomorrow you'll have more money and can take more effective action. But of course this just hollows out the present.
I have the same feelings about language as Fromm expresses. And I'd say to an extend about (intellectual, abstracted) thought too.
Thanks, Jonathan.
Everything is basically footnotes to McGilchrist in one way or another :)
FWIW, I would be wary of tarring all of EA with the same ends-based brush. There's a recurring (strongly argued on both sides) debate about the benefits of giving now v giving later, and at least until EA veered off in its rather odd longtermism direction, the 'give now' side seemed to be the slightly more strongly supported.