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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering CSCE 390 Professional Issues in Computer Science and Engineering Ch.3: Philosophic Belief Systems, part II: Pragmatism and Existentialism Spring 2012 Marco Valtorta

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pragmatist Metaphysics Reality is not the (hidden) ideal; it is not physical matter; it is a process –Is chewing gum a food? Heraclitus (ca. 535—475 BC): panta rei: everything flows “You cannot step into the same river twice” For the pragmatist, everything is essentially relative---the only constant is change; there are no absolutes Pragmatism is also called consequentialism and utilitarianism, especially in its modern, Anglo-Saxon forms

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pragmatist Epistemology Reason cannot be trusted Senses cannot be trusted Knowledge is achieved by open testing –Reality is the experience of the group Truth is reached by consensus Truth is not permanent: it may be revised Truth is not absolute: it is true as long as it is useful

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pragmatist Ethics The pragmatist turn “Is it good?”into “Is it good for what?” A pragmatist may believe that killing is always bad, but only because that pragmatist believe that killing always leads to worse consequences than an alternative action, not because it is intrinsically wrong The end justifies the means, or, positively, A means is good if it achieves an end more efficiently Evil is that which is counterproductive A pragmatist attempts to achieve the greatest good for the most people

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Existentialist Metaphysics Reality is not fixed and static Reality is not obtained by consensus Reality must be achieved individually Jean-Paul Sartre ( ): the world is absurd (without meaning); what meaning there is only holds for the individual Gabriel Marcel ( ): the world is recognized by each individual in a unique way, by action of the will Reality is different for each individual

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Existentialist Epistemology The individual produces his or her own truth There can be multiple, incompatible truths Communication is very difficult; you cannot fully understand each other Science is very difficult We may agree on something being true, but we reach this consensus independently

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Existentialist Ethics The individual must create his or her own value One cannot escape the need to decide The individual is fully responsible for his or her choices Individual choice and responsibility are paramount Existentialism is tough! The only guide to one’s actions is one’s conscience: no ideals as a guide, no nature to follow, no group consensus to accept

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Joseph Pieper (German, ) Pieper (a religious idealist) contrasts idealism with existentialism. First and foremost, a presupposition must be clarified and then accepted, namely, the belief that a man "ought to". In other words, not everything in his action and behavior is well and good just as it is. It makes no sense trying to convince a pig it ought to act and behave "like a real pig." That the rude line by Gottfried Benn -- "The crown of creation: the pig man" -- can be spoken at all and, further, hold true in such terrible ways: this fact alone shows that humanity must still realize the truly human in the domain of lived realities; it means man, as long as he exists, "ought to." Of course, one can formulate the concept somewhat less aggressively than Gottfried Benn. In this way, for example: "Fire does by necessity what is true and right according to its being, not so man, when he is doing the good.” This is a sentence from Anselm of Canterbury's DIALOGUE ON TRUTH. Two statements are there by made about man. Man, on the one hand, is free; and, on the other hand, meaning is given to him regardless of his opinion or his permission. …

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Joseph Pieper (German, ) Pieper (a religious idealist) contrasts idealism with existentialism. … It is precisely this last fact that all existentialism resists and, as it reaches far beyond the domain of a special philosophical school, also determines the common attitude of the people of our time; this is exactly what Jean-Paul Sartre's famous sentence means: "There is no such thing as human nature!" To one who does not acknowledge that the human being "is" homo sapiens in a totally different manner than water "is" water; that, to the contrary, the human being ought to become what he is (and therefore not already, eo ipso "is"); that one can speak of all other earthly creatures in the indicative, in simple statements, but of man, if one wants to express his actual reality, one can only speak in the imperative -- to him who cannot see this or does not want to admit to its truth it would be understandably meaningless to speak at all of an "ought to" and it would make no sense to give instructions or obligations, be it in the form of a teaching on virtue or otherwise.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mohr’s Proposal (ch. 5) A unified ethics: –Pare down possible courses of action using universal imperatives –Choose among remaining courses of action using their usefulness –So: idealism plus pragmatism

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Department of Computer Science and Engineering Homework Write a paper of 2 pages, in the same format as the first one, to answer all questions at the end of chapters 3, 4, and 5.