Argues that ethics and values are systemic realities and can be scientifically programmed in cybernetically oriented socio‐scientific systems. The case taken is of economic general equilibrium with possibilities of multiple equilibria. The treatment of ethics and values in this sense in economic theory makes them endogenous phenomena of socio‐economic reality. This substantive idea of ethics and values as endogenous phenomena in socio‐scientific systems is termed the principle of ethical endogeneity. Its social cybernetical possibilities are developed mathematically. While the mathematical treatment uses bilinear algebra for the formulation, greater importance may be seen in the scientific essence of the principle of ethical endogeneity applicable universally. This is particularly true of systems which need to be epistemologically unified.
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1 July 1995
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July 01 1995
A mathematical formalization of the principle of ethical endogeneity
Masudul Alam Choudhury
Masudul Alam Choudhury
University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7883
Print ISSN: 0368-492X
© MCB UP Limited
1995
Kybernetes (1995) 24 (5): 11–30.
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Alam Choudhury M (1995), "A mathematical formalization of the principle of ethical endogeneity". Kybernetes, Vol. 24 No. 5 pp. 11–30, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929510091508
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