Good and Evil in a P2P Context

Discusion

From Alessio Bini:

"PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATION ON P2P MODELS

Reading many texts on P2P models, I often find expressions towards ethics and towards moralizzation of the economy.

Right! But these expressions lack to meta-ethicals reflections.

One of the most results of ethical research, is that dont' exist only one concept of “good”.

Exist a finite collection of concept of “good” and this collection is not increasible arbitarily.

Some concepts of “good” are conflictual between theme.

Shortly, I make a list of some concepts of “good”:

1. God's will: for Christians, Moslems, Jewishes and others religions;

2. individual pleasure, for hedonsists;

3. variable according to circumstance (Gorgia and others);

4. “good” as exertion, exertion versus pleasure, opulence, body instincts, ecc (Antistene, IV sec. b. C.)

5. as happiness, however “happiness” can have a multiplicity of meaning. This concept was substained by Aristote, that he was aware of the collection of concepts that contain in turn.

6. respecting natural laws, for stoics philosophers;

7. conscience will (Seneca was the discoverer of consciousness);

8. pleasure in a vaste sense: mental pleasure and body pleasure, without excess (Lorenzo Valla);

9. self preservation of individual (Bernardino Telesio);

10. endorsement of an external unreal and neutral observator (Francis Hutchenson);

11. the good of group or tribe (Charles Darwin, The Origin of human kind);

12. the good of the species (Charles Darwing and better Richard Dawkins)

13. maximum happiness for the maximum number of person (utilitarianism)

These are some definitions of “good”. Which of these are compatibles with a moralization of economy? Some of these are conflictuals between theme self. For example, the defnition 1 versus the definition 2.

Furthermore, we must combine a definition of “evil” with each definition of “good”.

But there are two conceptions of “evil” for every difinition of “good”: “evil” as a simply negation of good” and “evil” as a positive entity that opposes wit the corrispondet definition of “good”.

So, I think that before moralize the economy we can ask which definition of “good” choice and whic definition of “evil” combine to it.

But, Philosophy teach us that no one of these definitions is right and no one is wrong.

In a P2P society on large scale we can imagine that humans self organize not in one big global network, but in sub-network that are contected between them, without hierarchy.

Innovation technology permit us to create P2P network not necessarly geografically localized.

But if it's true this assumption, it's possibile to immagine a network of network in which every network adibe by a one specific couple of concept of “good” and “evil”." (email January 2014)