ICANNWiki:"Philosophy" essay by Marc Perkel: Difference between revisions
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What we come up with can be applied to all aspects of life. For example, if we adopt the view that the positive evolution of humanity is a better path than extinction, and the the idea of the Global Public Interest is a good standard, then these ideas could be easily applied to decisions about the environment. Clean air and water is better than polluted air and water. Peace is better than war. Nuclear annihilation is a bad idea. We all sort of know this but if we have a solid philosophical infrastructure we can precisely explain why these statement are true and we can create testable outcomes to check our decisions against. | What we come up with can be applied to all aspects of life. For example, if we adopt the view that the positive evolution of humanity is a better path than extinction, and the the idea of the Global Public Interest is a good standard, then these ideas could be easily applied to decisions about the environment. Clean air and water is better than polluted air and water. Peace is better than war. Nuclear annihilation is a bad idea. We all sort of know this but if we have a solid philosophical infrastructure we can precisely explain why these statement are true and we can create testable outcomes to check our decisions against. | ||
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Magna Carta] for example became the philosophical framework that lead to constitutional democracies. We don't know where our work will lead but it very well could happen that something we never dreamed of will be based on the work we do here, and that's why we should do it. | |||
=== Write a philosophical preamble to the bylaws to define our mission in big picture terms === | === Write a philosophical preamble to the bylaws to define our mission in big picture terms === | ||