Social experiences of unfairness resist standard distributional accounts. This article argues that comparative relations do not merely shape responses to unequal outcomes but participate in constituting the sense of entitlement through which those outcomes are experienced as unfair. Drawing on René Girard’s social theo...
Åke Elden· Philosophy & Social Crit...· 0 citations
This paper argues that moral responsibility can fail under technologically mediated conditions in two structurally connected ways. First, agents may act from motivational states significantly shaped by external formative processes whose influence remains partially opaque to reflective awareness. Second, institutions ma...
It is argued that predictive systems must be understood as formative environments that shape attention, imagination, and desire through patterned repetition and the strategic management of salience.
Contemporary AI systems are increasingly designed to reduce uncertainty, ambiguity, and cognitive burden. This article argues that such systems do not merely expand human capacities but progressively externalize forms of judgment and existential burden that Christian traditions have historically understood as necessary...
Åke Elden· Studies in Christian Ethics· 0 citations
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