JPS Theological Ethics (Final)

Climate feedbacks

Processes that either amplify or dampen the effects of initial climate change

The documented post-industrial temperature rise since 1880 is __.

1.1°C

The tipping point of post-industrial temperature rise is __.

1.5°C

Emission cut 2025

Global GHG emmisions peak

Emission cut 2030

Cut ~50% from 2019 levels

Emission cut 2050

90% direct reduction, net zero CO2

Prudence

Right, reason applied to action

Two methods to integrate values in tension

Layered or lexically ordered & Intricate herringbone pattern

The three functions of voting

Selective, expressive, and contributive

The three parts of an issue stance

Judge, diagnosis, and proposal

Four candidate considerations

Competence, character, collaboration, and connections

The meaning of 'no monopolies' on values, issues, and solutions

Values transcend issues, no issue has a monopoly on a value and no solution has a monopoly on addressing an issue

Formal cooperation with evil

Agreement in the will

The three parts of a narrative plot

Challenge, choice, and outcome

King's four phases of nonviolent campaigns

Collection of the facts, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action

Just Law

Any law that uplifts huma personality

Six sources of Power

Authority, human resources, skills and knowledge, material resources, intangible factors, and sanctions

Pillars of support

Specific institutions and sections of society that supply the existing regime with sources of power required for maintenance and expansion of its power capacity

Four Mechanisms of Change

Conversion, accommodation, coercion, disintegration

The four levels of strategic planning

Grand Strategy, campaigns, tactics, and methods

Three types of methods

Protest and persuasion, non-cooperation, and intervention

Layered or Lexically Ordered

 First level must be secured completely before we can turn to the second

Intricate Herringbone Pattern

Values must all be integrated tightly

Selective

Select person to serve as an authority and exercise power on our behalf

Expressive

Express opinions, beliefs, positions

Contributive

An act of solidarity with one’s community

Judge

Is climate change a problematic reality?

Diagnosis

Is it human-caused?

Proposal

How should we address this problem?

Material cooperation with evil

Disagreement of the will

Reason

The value at stake (e.g. human dignity)

Propotionality

The relationship between means and end (gives act a moral meaning)

Unjust Law

Human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law

Authority

Power of the office

Human Resources

People who enact power of a ruler

Skills and Knowledge

Conceptual and Evaluative

Material Resources

Means to leverage power

Intangible Factors

Habits, attitudes, values

Sanctions

Threat/application of punishments

Pillars of Support (Specific)

Institutions & groups

Not general sectors

Police, military, bureaucracy, educational system, organized religion, media, and business community

Pillars of Support and relationship to obedience

“Heart of political power” – If the people do not obey, the ruler cannot rule

Conversion

Inspired to change for principled or ethical reasons

Accommodation

Convinced to change based on cost-benefit analysis

Coercion

Forced to change based on prospect of unsustainable losses

Disintegration

Unavoidable change based on systemic collapse

Grand Strategy

A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim (teleological)

Campaigns

“Fronts” of the grand strategy related to issues with discrete aims that all work toward a common objective

Coercion

Plans to achieve specific, limited objectives

Disintegration

Specific actions

Snowflake

Approach where each member of the core tam accepts responsibility (distributed leadership) for the organization of their own leadership team

Three qualities of leadership teams

Bounded, stable, and interdependent

Dot model vs. leadership team

I’m the leader and we’re all leaders vs. leadership team

Primary Target

The person or, sometimes, group of persons that can make the change you want / Possess power to authorize change

Secondary Target

A powerful group or person that can influence/pressure the primary

Problem

Broad, vague challenges

Issue

Leaders/participants “carve a discrete, achievable goal” to address problem

Self-interest

Passion that inspires a person’s commitment

Four aims of One-on-one Interviews

Uncover self-interests, develop a relationship, evaluate leadership potential, and recruit for the organizaton

One-on-one Interviews

Conversations between organizer and leader/participant

Power

The capacity to enact/catalyze change

Three categories of people who activate power

Organizers, leaders, and participants

Organizers

Trained professionals who may come from outside a community or emerge within” and support leaders

Leaders

Govern a community organizing group and decide what issue it will work on

Participants

Those leaders encounter (one-on-ones), recruit, coordinate, and accompany

Three narratives

Story of self, story of us, and story of now

Story of Us

What are the experiences and values that call you to assume leadership

Story of Self

What are the experiences and values of the ‘us’ – or the people in the room –that will call them to join you in action

Story of Now

Why is it urgent to respond to the challenge? What do you want to call on the people here to join you in doing? What is the outcome? Where is the hope?

Competence

Does the candidate have the intellectual capacity, experience, temperament, and the judgement to do the job?

Character

Does the candidate have a good set of moral values and the integrity to pursue them?

Collaboration

Can the candidate work well with other people, both political allies and opponents?

Connection

Influences

Collection of the Facts

Research if injustice exists

Negotiation

Act of negotiation is only one part of a nonviolent campaign

Self-Purification

Ridding and purification of violent intentions and actions

Direct Action

Acting upon the issue in a non-violent approach