Economics, Politics, and Religion: Social Justice |
The purpose of this blog is to discuss topics in Economics, Politics, and Religion from a social justice approach. I am a strong believer in ethics; and I truly believe that no anlytical methodology is strong without an ethical perspective that, at least, attempts to assign people their respective rights. However, there will be posts that don't analyze all topics through ethics; but all posts will mantain a tangent to one of the three subjects. |
I have been studying social sciences for the last five plus years. It fascinates me that among all of the theories that western theorists have propounded to come to terms with social phenomenon, morality seems to be a systematic misnomer, especially among academic liberals. For the societal ills, some fault our institutions, such as education, for not developing and nurturing the human agency, while others blame the inefficient and corrupt economic and political systems. However, no modern school of thought holds morality as the key differentiating factor in explaining inter-societal variations. For example, is US morally superior to China, or Pakistan for that matter. The funny thing is that most westerners believe such an exposition; however, academics or most politicians don’t use morality to justify their national superiority. My question is: does morality determine superior political and economic systems, or the other way around? Regardless of the answer to the previous question, why is there such an aversion to using morality as a base for inter-societal comparisons? Why aren’t there a set of heuristics to deal with such a question so that we avoid dogma and trivial academic pursuits?
