I would like an explanation of why this message is not being posted on the
list.
The information is accurate and is easily verifiable.
Sincerely
John LaMuth
-----Original Message-----
From: Fairhaven <legacypr@lucernevalley.net>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:20 PM
Subject: conference abstract
>Greetings list members;
>
> The following abstract was accepted for presentation at the ASA-2000
>conference at Wenham. In fact, I was assigned the lead-off presentation
slot
>at the conference.
>
>Unfortunately I was unable to make the cross country trip due to health
>problems, hence I was forced to cancel my attendance without receiving any
>further feedback on the abstract.
>
>I welcome any open feedback in this regard (albeit belatedly), for I feel
>its content has much to offer towards an understanding of the recent tragic
>events in the USA
>_____________________________________________
>
>A Revolution in the Understanding of the Family Values
>
>The current interest in family values has undergone a significant revival
as
>of late, a trend dramatized by the perceived decline in morals affecting
>American culture. The traditional descriptions of the family values,
>however, are typically treated as isolated entities, lacking any meaningful
>degree of moral connectedness across the board. Fortunately, the dream of a
>unified ethical and moral system has finally been realized with the first
>radical revolution in ethical theory in over two thousand years. Take, for
>example, the cardinal virtues (prudence-justice-temperance-fortitude), the
>theological virtues (faith-hope-charity-decency), and the classical Greek
>values (beauty-truth-goodness-wisdom). When additional groupings of
ethical
>terms are further added into the mix: the complete multi-level hierarchy of
>terms emerges in full detail, reproduced in the table immediately below:
>
> GLORY-----------PRUDENCE
> PROVIDENCE---------FAITH
> GRACE-------------BEAUTY
> TRANQUILITY------ECSTASY
>
>
> HONOR---------JUSTICE
> LIBERTY----------HOPE
> FREE WILL-------TRUTH
> EQUALITY--------BLISS
>
>
> DIGNITY-------TEMPERANCE
> CIVILITY---------CHARITY
> MAGNANIMITY-----GOODNESS
> LOVE-----------------JOY
>
>
> INTEGRITY----FORTITUDE
> AUSTERITY------DECENCY
> EQUANIMITY------WISDOM
> PEACE----------HARMONY
>
>
> Such superficial resemblances in terms, however, can scarcely claim to
>be the total picture; for it further proves possible to base this hierarchy
>of family values entirely within a behavioral foundation; namely, the
>terminology of operant conditioning proposed by the great American
>psychologist, B. F. Skinner. Through this purely behavioral style of
>motivational analysis, the higher virtues and values can alternately be
>viewed as more advanced metaperspectives on the more basic complement of
>instinctual states (i.e., reward, punishment, appetite, aversion).
>_________________________________
>
>With Best Regards,
>
>John E. LaMuth
>www.charactervalues.com ***(newly updated)
>legacypr@sisp.net
>www.sisp.net/~legacypr/
>
>
>
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