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0164 According to Fuller, “research ethics” is a figment of the regulatory imagination<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a fig leaf for the empirio-normative university<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a school, selectively taking some of the opinions and traditions of parents2a<\/sub><\/em> as phenomena2a<\/sub>, then training their children<\/em> on models of price and righteousness2b<\/sub> that empower<\/em> the one of scientism3c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0165 In chapter ten, titled “‘Research Ethics’ as a Post-Truth Playground”, Fuller demonstrates that empirio-normative social construction<\/em> does not conform to familiar codes of conduct<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely, many nominally Christian parents merely want their children to seal the deal of the post-truth interscope and obtain certification2b<\/sub> that guarantees opportunities1c<\/sub> for success2c<\/sub> in the normal context of a scientismist godhead3c<\/sub>.  A Biblical parallel might be the ancient Hebrew family<\/em> who sends their kids to the Canaanite College of Baal Business and Asherah Service Management<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0166 The problem is that there does not seem to be a clear way forward<\/em> for reasonable3a,1a<\/sub> people, who want to learn how to get ahead and think for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going back to the first rendition of the interscope of the relativist one,<\/em> the intellects3a<\/sub> and the wills1a<\/sub> of individuals in community support diverse opinions2a<\/sub> that are then sifted, as phenomena2a<\/sub>, by an academy3b<\/sub> that formalizes knowledge1b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0167 In general, the resulting formalized knowledge1b<\/sub>, which might include skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic, produces a person trained well-enough to find opportunity1c<\/sub> in the system of the relativist one3c<\/sub><\/em> of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0168 The problem is subtle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this figure, “success” is an ambiguous term.  On the scrappy-player level, “success2a<\/sub>” is “getting ahead”.  On the relativist-one level, “success2c<\/sub>” is an actionable judgment.  The godhead does not care whether the resulting actions promote or destroy human flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, gods can be capricious in this way, especially gods that don’t deal with truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0169 So, when the scrappy player, whose will1a<\/sub> operates in the normal context of the intellect3a<\/sub>, virtually situates his will1a<\/sub> with the possibility of formal knowledge1b<\/sub>, he makes a choice to subjugate his own facts and claims2a<\/sub> to the facts and claims1b<\/sub> required to obtain a credential2b<\/sub> through some educational forum3b<\/sub>.  He wants to get ahead and find opportunity1c<\/sub> for “success2a<\/sub>” from the scrappy-player point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scrappy player does not realize that he has also achieves success2c<\/sub> in the normal context of the relativist one3c<\/sub>, who sees “success2c<\/sub>” only as the manifestation of an actionable judgment2c<\/sub><\/em>, irrespective of whether that manifestation coincides with what the scrappy player regards as “success2a<\/sub>“<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0170 But, that does not mean that the two renderings of “success”<\/em> are completely independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose that, before the Christians establish universities throughout Europe, an astrologer may have been a success2a<\/sub> in regards to the relativist one3c<\/sub> of the time<\/em> as well as a well-renumerated2a<\/sub> practitioner in reading celestial indicators2c<\/sub>. Indeed, the fact that the astrologer is well-paid2a<\/sub> indicates the power2c<\/sub> of his expertise2b<\/sub> within the Zeigeist3c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Christian universities promote the demystification of the celestial bodies2c<\/sub>, to the extent that Aristotle allows, the astrologer finds less opportunities1c<\/sub> and soon enough, no one wants to be an apprentice to the local astrologer, because that is a lousy way to get ahead2a<\/sub>.  The relativist god of the alchemical sciences<\/em> has to wait a few centuries for another post-truth civilizational moment<\/em> to manifest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0171 Oddly, this brings me back to Fuller’s tenth chapter, where he claims that ethics is usually grounded in two codes of conduct: one transactional and one transcendental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me, given this examination, which runs a complementary course to Fuller’s text, the transactional code<\/em> may apply to institutional3b<\/sub> conduct<\/em> in regards to<\/em> the scrappy player3a<\/sub><\/em> and the transcendental code<\/em> may apply to the divine3c<\/sub><\/em> in terms of the capriciousness inherent in defining success2c<\/sub> in terms of actionable judgments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transactional code says that credentials2b<\/sub> must be rewarded to a scrappy player2a<\/sub> who objectively masters the relevant formalized knowledge1b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transcendental code says that simply arriving at actionable judgments2c<\/sub>\u00a0is not enough.\u00a0\u00a0The actions of perspective-level judgments3c<\/sub>\u00a0ought to promote human flourishing rather than destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as this examination continues, the adjectives “transactional” and “transcendental” are repurposed as qualifiers for capitalist and socialist values, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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