Lionel Page

@lionelpage.bsky.social

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Director of UQ Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences. Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association. Book: ‘Optimally Irrational’, Substack: https://www.optimallyirrational.com/

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 3d

A key objection to ‘morality as a convention’ (rather than absolute truth) is that ‘anything goes’.

@lionelpage.bsky.social deftly counters this argument and shows why its method is flawed, and proposes respect for a social contract as a more robust explanation:

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 3d

Very much this energy : m.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUb...

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 4d

A defence of morality as respect for a social contract.

Moral, legal and ethical systems are conventions, but they are not arbitrary: they are constrained by the structure of conflict and cooperation in society.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/a-defence-...