Morality, Imagination and Human decision making

Abstract

Morality, imagination and human decision making

An epistemology of facilitation: A Julian M�ller story

“…Müller (2011a) notes that the shift from 'argumentative logic' to 'narrative logic' is one that characterises our time, being a time of transition (see also Demasure & Müller 2006). This is also not dissimilar to the importance ascribed to the role of the imagination over the notion of objectivist morality and decision-making as primary pursuit or goal (Human, Liebenberg & Müller 2001).…”

Positive discipline in South African public schools: A metasynthesis of best practices and strategies

“…The outline and discussion above of the Great Mandate, the Great Commandment and the Great Commission constitute an ethical and/or moral compass in the lives of Christian educators (teachers, parents and other significant persons in the lives of the less mature). Those who prefer not to act (in this particular case, to discipline the less mature, the young) on the basis of such an ethical and/or moral compass, or who have had negative experiences with such a compass in their own lives because of their exposure to some toxic religious experience or other (the behaviour of the father-pastor in the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver comes to mind in this regard), find themselves in a difficult position, as can be seen in a paper by Human and Liebenberg (2001). 4 I quote at length from their work so as to present in relatively full detail their reasons for eschewing a Christian or biblical ethical and/or moral compass in their lives.…”

“…They begin their argument with a reference to deconstructionist John Caputo in which, according to these authors (Human & Liebenberg 2001):…”

“…merely a matter of having proper ethics, of making the right choice. 5 (p. 14) Deconstruction, on the other hand, 'takes the task of making one's way along an aporia, along an almost impassable road, where the ground may at any moment shift beneath our feet' (Human & Liebenberg 2001), and the aporia that Caputo speaks of:…”

“…The aim of their (Human & Liebenberg 2001) contribution: [I]s to talk about ethics and morality by exploring some of the possibilities offered by looking at moral dilemmas (of whatever degree) from the experience humans often have of being stuck, coming to a dead-end, having no way out, et cetera. These metaphors relate to viewing life as a journey with a moral dilemma being an obstacle that hinders progression.…”