Immorality and the Meaning of Life

Landau, Iddo

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“…If achievements are a key part of meaning in life, it would be odd to suggest that they can play this part if they can be negative in nature. Accordingly, it is common in theories of meaning to argue that a life lacks meaning if it produces negative outcomes in the world [19,27,35]. Since we find Luper's view to be counterintuitive, in the remainder of this article, we focus on achievements that are associated with either positive or non-negative outcomes (i.e.…”

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Automation, work and the achievement gap

Danaher

Nyholm

2020

AI Ethics

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Rapid advances in AI-based automation have led to a number of existential and economic concerns. In particular, as automating technologies develop enhanced competency, they seem to threaten the values associated with meaningful work. In this article, we focus on one such value: the value of achievement. We argue that achievement is a key part of what makes work meaningful and that advances in AI and automation give rise to a number achievement gaps in the workplace. This could limit people’s ability to participate in meaningful forms of work. Achievement gaps are interesting, in part, because they are the inverse of the (negative) responsibility gaps already widely discussed in the literature on AI ethics. Having described and explained the problem of achievement gaps, the article concludes by identifying four possible policy responses to the problem.

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Section: What Is An Achievement?mentioning

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Automation, work and the achievement gap

Danaher

Nyholm

2020

AI Ethics

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“…Seseorang yang menemukan makna dalam hidup harus menafsirkan keberadaannya di dunia ini, memiliki tujuan hidup, dan mengambil tindakan yang tepat (Frankl, 1985;Ho, Cheung, & Cheung, 2010). Landau (2011) juga mempertegas pandangannya bahwa individu dapat saja salah dalam menilai situasinya sendiri, arah hidup, dan nilai-nilai lingkungan yang berinteraksi dalam kehidupannya. Ketika seseorang berhasil menemukan makna hidup sebagai tujuan hidup, maka muncul perasaan bahagia.…”

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Nilai-Nilai Kekerabatan Dalihan Na Tolu untuk Mengarahkan Meaning of Life Siswa Perantau Beretnis Batak Mandailing Muslim

Suharto

Hidayah

Apriani

2024

Bul. Konseling Inov.

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The Dalihan Na Tolu is a system of kinship that originated from the Muslim Mandailing Batak tribe regulating the life of people. This study aims to identify the role of Dalihan Na Tolu values as the kinship system as the fundamental for Muslim Mandailing Batak nomads students’ meaning of life fulfillment. This qualitative study used the phenomenology design. In collecting the primary data, we used observation and interviews with two Muslim Mandailing Batak nomads students. At the same time, the secondary data were obtained from the parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, and teachers. The data validity was assessed using triangulation on the observation and interview data. Our analysis results suggested that the Muslim Mandailing Batak nomads students’ meaning of life can be observed through three fundamentals of the meaning of life, namely the creativity, belief, and bravery values. The creativity value consists of the Marsitukkol Tukkolan Songon Suhat Di Robean value (asking the siblings to be successful) and Annakon Ki Do Hamoraon Di Au value (vengeance in learning). The belief value subsists of the speech or manner values in talking with the elders and Tua Mi U Jujung-jujung Tilako Mi U Dege-dege (disseminating kindness and covering the evils). Lastly, the behavior value consists of the bravery value.Abstrak: Dalihan Na Tolu merupakan sistem kekerabatan suku Batak Mandailing Muslim dalam mengatur kehidupan bermasyarakat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keterkaitan nilai-nilai Dalihan Na Tolu sebagai sistem kekerabatan dapat menjadi dasar pemenuhan meaning of life siswa perantauan beretnis Batak Mandailing Muslim. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan studi fenomenologi. Prosedur pengumpulan data melalui observasi dan wawancara kepada dua orang siswa perantau beretnis Batak Mandailing Muslim sebagai sumber data primer dan sumber data sekunder terdiri dari orang tua, saudara, teman, tetangga, dan guru. Pengecekan keabsahan data pada penelitian ini dilakukan menggunakan triangulasi yang bersumber dari hasil wawancara dan observasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan meaning of life siswa perantauan beretnis Batak Mandailing Muslim dapat dilihat dari tiga aspek sebagai landasan meaning of life, yaitu nilai kreatif, nilai keyakinan dan nilai keberanian. Nilai kreatif yang terdiri dari nilai Marsitukkol Tukkolan Songon Suhat Di Robean atau mengajak kerabat untuk sukses dan Annakon Ki Do Hamoraon Di Au atau bersungguh-sungguh dalam belajar. Nilai keyakinan yang terdiri dari nilai tutur atau bertata krama dengan orang tua dan Tua Mi U Jujung-jujung Tilako Mi U Dege-dege atau menyebarkan kebaikan dan menutup keburukan. Nilai sikap yang terdiri dari nilai keberanian.

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“…Much of the discussion involving anti-matter or anti-meaning has a moral tenor, indeed, Landau's (2011) discussion takes place explicitly within the context of arguing that gross immorality is incompatible with leading a meaningful life. This is true also for the specific sort of anti-meaning that occasions remorse – namely, significant, irreparable damage .…”

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“…A meaningful life is one in which there is a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value, and a meaningless life is one in which there is not a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value.Determining the value or meaningfulness of a life involves, on his view, a reckoning of life's merits and demerits. As Landau (2011, p. 314) puts it elsewhere: Different kinds of behavior can balance each other, to a degree, and we may deem a life that encompasses a limited degree of certain negative elements to be, overall, meaningful. Once a person crosses a certain threshold, however, we cannot regard the life as having sufficient value and, therefore, as meaningful.Similarly, Stephen M. Campbell and Sven Nyholm (2015, p. 704) suggest the ledger theory when they write, ‘a life's overall meaningfulness is a function of the meaning and the anti-meaning in the life…a meaningful life is a life in which the meaningful elements substantially outweigh the anti-meaningful ones, or in which the anti-meaningful ones are entirely absent’.…”

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Remorse and the Ledger Theory of Meaning

Scripter¹

2022

Philosophy

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A common idea about assessing meaning in life is that one draws up a list of those various positive values that one has achieved and subtracts from it one's negative deeds in life. The resulting balance is the meaningfulness of one's existence. I call this the ledger theory. Drawing on the work of Raimond Gaita and Julian Barnes's novel The Sense of an Ending, I argue for a phenomenology of remorse that gives us reason to reject the ledger theory. Even those agents whose lives have been exceptionally meaningful in some respects may remain haunted by their past. Certain sorts of misdeeds – those that involve significant, irreparable damage – leave life marred in such a way that the negative remains, even in the face of all the meaningful deeds of life.

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Immorality and the Meaning of Life

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Automation, work and the achievement gap

Automation, work and the achievement gap

Nilai-Nilai Kekerabatan Dalihan Na Tolu untuk Mengarahkan Meaning of Life Siswa Perantau Beretnis Batak Mandailing Muslim

Remorse and the Ledger Theory of Meaning

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