The Ethics of Sense-Making
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F23%3A39920736" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/23:39920736 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1240163/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1240163/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1240163" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1240163</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Ethics of Sense-Making
Original language description
In this paper, we contribute to the arising field of “enactive ethics,” that is, the application of enactive cognitive science to the field of ethics. To this end, we will make a case that an “ethics of sense-making” should exist. With “sense-making,” we mean the permanent everyday embodied activity of interpreting the surroundings we are in, as well as our role in them. In other words, we mean the activity of understanding our environments in such a way that certain things, but not others, stand out as meaningful and relevant to us. We argue that sense-making can be performed in ethically better or worse ways. For example, one might make sense of a potentially provocative comment either as an insult or as an invitation for a respectful discussion. How one makes sense in this case will affect oneself, the other, and their present and future relations. We propose that it is often helpful to hold humans responsible for their ways of sense-making. This opens up the possibility to transform their sense-making and the worlds they inhabit. This also has significance for their eudaimonic well-being. Our ethics of sense-making focusses on the ubiquitous activities of sense-making, which, when changed, will lead to great ethical improvements of people’s actions, choices, and character traits.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-15446S" target="_blank" >GA22-15446S: "ECEGADMAT". Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN
1664-1078
e-ISSN
1664-1078
Volume of the periodical
2023
Issue of the periodical within the volume
14
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1-13
UT code for WoS article
001128963700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85180719215