Sixth, professional morality includes special standards that are more or less stringent than particular requirements of ordinary morality in other contexts.

Fifth, the consensus established by a code of ethics provides strong support for the many individuals who strive to act responsibly.

Fourth, mandatory and enforced guidelines are needed to create a fair playing (or working) field where professionalism can flourish without cutthroat competition. In addition, the guidelines help control temptations to cut corners in the pursuit of private or corporate gain.

Third, and partly combining the first two considerations, professionals provide important services to clients who must trust in their expertise. Professional groups win the approval of society to exercise a monopoly, or at least dominance, over vital services, based on their particular credentials that establish their singular claim to competence in providing specific services.

Second, everyday nonprofessional ethics constitutes a morass of clashing viewpoints and languages, a seeming Tower of Babel.1Close Professional norms must be standardized in order to establish a common understanding about what can be expected by way of professional diligence and decency.

First, often much is at stake in providing professional services. Individuals and the general public can be harmed substantially, including through loss of life and livelihood.

Six considerations support the need for this shared minimum.

The story that they are telling is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago, when the driving force of evolution changed from biology to culture, and the direction changed from diversification to unification of species. The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.

In the Pirandello play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", the six characters come on stage, one after another, each of them pushing the story in a different unexpected direction. I use Pirandello's title as a metaphor for the pioneers in our understanding of the concept of evolution over the last two centuries. Here are my six characters with their six themes. 1. Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Diversity Paradox. 2. Motoo Kimura (1924-1994): Smaller Populations Evolve Faster. 3. Ursula Goodenough (1943- ): Nature Plays a High-Risk Game. 4. Herbert Wells (1866-1946): Varieties of Human Experience. 5. Richard Dawkins (1941- ): Genes and Memes. 6. Svante Pääbo (1955- ): Cousins in the Cave. The story that they are telling is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago, when the driving force of evolution changed from biology to culture, and the direction changed from diversification to unification of species. The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.

Biological and Cultural Evolution Six Characters in Search of an Author

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the six 00:48:41 six big systems i've mentioned can be viewed as a cognitive architecture it's the it's the means by which the society learns decides adapts and 00:48:54 and this society's efforts this is the third underlying position the society's efforts to learn decide and adapt and be viewed as being driven by an intrinsic purpose and that's really key also 00:49:08 because it's not just that we're learning deciding and adapting willy-nilly i mean i mean maybe it seems that way in the world you know in the sense we're so dysfunctional it kind of is billy nilly but 00:49:20 but what really matters is that we learn decide and adapt in relation to whatever intrinsic purpose we actually have as as a society as individuals in a 00:49:34 society it's that it's it's it's it's as i will use the the term uh maybe several times today it's solving problems that matter that really that really 00:49:45 matter that's what we're after

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“The Hope Six Demolition Project” by PJ Harvey

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