tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post8703085489954243360..comments2023-05-19T09:55:15.881+01:00Comments on Analysis and Synthesis: Mobility and opportunityRichard Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869390364282686725noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-55925761361390592672011-04-11T19:13:18.214+01:002011-04-11T19:13:18.214+01:00Der begabteste Kandidat soll die Stelle bekommen, ...Der begabteste Kandidat soll die Stelle bekommen, sagen Sie. <br />Es sind aber Fälle denkbar, in denen es sich mit guten Gründen vertreten lässt, dass ein weniger begabter Bewerber den Zuschlag bekommt. <br />Ein Vater kann zum Beispiel einen suizidgefährdeten und nur mittelmäßig begabten Sohn haben und einen Geschäftsfreund bitten, ihn in seinem Unternehmen einzustellen. <br />Ein besser geeigneter Bewerber ist hingegen vielleicht in der Lage, ohne größere Schwierigkeiten etwas anderes zu finden.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-44582907754127526372011-04-06T23:31:36.640+01:002011-04-06T23:31:36.640+01:00Some economically successful people are ruthless. ...Some economically successful people are ruthless. I am not sure that it is true of most of them. And of course, there are lots of sorts of success apart from economic success.<br /><br />Of course we cannot realistically measure merit and then grant privileges. But I do not think that is what is being suggested. The idea is to ensure that if you have talents, then you get the opportunity to get a good job in which you can use them. You do not find that someone who is less talented, but who has advantages such as social connections, gets the job instead. So rather than work out who should get what, we oil the machine of society so that it can, efficiently but unintentionally, work out who gets which jobs.Richard Baronhttp://www.rbphilo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-60181797891740641242011-04-06T20:06:11.795+01:002011-04-06T20:06:11.795+01:00Most successful people are often ruthless and with...Most successful people are often ruthless and without scruples. They are not bothered by remorse or bad conscience because they lack mirror neurons. <br />They are brilliant and fascinating, unimpeded by empathy. <br />They are called psychopaths or sociopaths.<br /><br />It may be difficult to measure merit and to grant privileges according to merit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-53144976560897493912011-04-06T17:39:54.972+01:002011-04-06T17:39:54.972+01:00höhere Menschen, oder höhere Seelen
Ich habe mich...höhere Menschen, oder höhere Seelen<br /><br />Ich habe mich leider vertippt. <br /><br />Höhere Menschen können auch Frauen sein, Lou Andreas-Salomé war eine von dieser Sorte, neben Napoleon und ein paar anderen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-41788788114430032522011-04-06T17:00:28.721+01:002011-04-06T17:00:28.721+01:00A Scandinavian once explained to me that there is ...A Scandinavian once explained to me that there is some kind of unwritten law in their country which says that nobody is either worse or better than anyone else. <br />This is what I have always felt myself.<br />And this is what Jesus was preaching too.<br />So the best solution would be to allow everybody to squeeze at the top of the social ladder. <br />This would be paradise for all. <br />And those who do not like crowded places could simply descend or move to the woods and live like hermits. <br /><br />Superior men (hörere Menschen) according to Nietzsche were often people who were not at all at the top of the social ladder. They were often die Missratenen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-19762693927539687672011-04-06T16:33:19.032+01:002011-04-06T16:33:19.032+01:00We clearly do not have any ordering relation in th...We clearly do not have any ordering relation in the mathematical sense. But we do have a general sense of level of education, a general sense of status of job, and so on. So we can identify clear cases in which it would make sense to say that someone had moved up, or down, in society, even though there are many cases in which we cannot say anything either way.<br /><br />None of this can sustain any judgement of worth. The most important people in a modern city are the water and sewage workers, closely followed by the rubbish collectors. They are the people who keep us free from widespread disease.<br /><br />As for a prince becoming a clochard, that would depend on whether he could easily revert to his princely life. If he could, then he would only be playing, like Marie Antoinette at the Hameau. But if he committed to the life of a clochard, and could not leave it any more easily than any other clochard, that would be a real change.Richard Baronhttp://www.rbphilo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055583406917680385.post-89525969875327904382011-04-06T15:27:09.306+01:002011-04-06T15:27:09.306+01:00How do you measure moving up in society ?
Are the...How do you measure moving up in society ? <br />Are there any objective criteria for evaluating one´s social position ? <br />This is a sincere question, not a rhetorical one. <br /><br />Would Prince Harry move down in society if he decided to live like a clochard in Paris ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com