Professor John McMurtry, FRSC is a moral philosopher and ethicist who works at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He is a strong advocate of monetary reform and vocal in the anti-globalization movement. He may be the single most influential Canadian voice in that movement, although Naomi Klein is better known. He was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in June 2001.. The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the science (study) of morality. In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is good or right. ... An ethicist is one whose judgement on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by some community, and (importantly) is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement. ... The University of Guelph is a medium-sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1964. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... Monetary Reform is accounting reform that reaches more deeply into banking central bank, money supply and monetary policy. ... Anti-WEF grafiti in Lausanne. ... Naomi Klein (born May 5, 1970 [1]) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

He received his doctorate in 1975 from University College, London. Prior to doctoral studies, he was "a professional football player, print and television journalist, academic English teacher and world-traveller" and a student of Eastern philosophy. According to himself he "came to philosophy as a last resort, because as someone naturally disposed to question unexamined assumptions and conventional beliefs, I could find no other profession which permitted this vocation at the appropriate level of research." Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

He calls value theory "my unifying field of research", but has also published and taught in social and political philosophy, Asian/Indian and Chinese philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of education, philosophy and literature, philosophy of history, post-Kant continental philosophy, the logic of natural language, and, recently, philosophy of the environment. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Social philosophy is the philosophical study of interesting questions about social behavior (typically, of humans). ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what makes a government legitimate, what... Yin Yang symbol and Ba gua paved in a clearing outside of Nanning City, Guangxi province, China. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Learning Theories The philosophy of education is the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. ... Philosophy of History is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance, if any, of human history. ...

He is also part of the peace movement and international law study bodies, e.g. serving as Chair of Jurists, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal at the Alternative World Summit in Toronto, 1989. His professional work has been published in over 150 books and journals, including Inquiry, the Monist, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Praxis International, the Encyclopedia of Ethics, Atlantic Monthly, Guardian Weekly and the Norton Anthology of Prose. A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Monism is the metaphysical position that all is of one essential essence, substance or energy. ... The Encyclopedia of Ethics is a scholarly work with the original focus on ethical theory. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ...

His recent research has focused on the underlying value structure of economic theory, its consequences for global civil and environmental life, and the life ground and civil commons. FUCKING BULLSHIT!! The value of life is an economic or moral value assigned to life in general, or to specific living organisms. ... In economics, value of Earth is the ultimate in ecosystem valuation, and important to value of life calculations. ...

In Unequal Freedoms: The Global Markets As An Ethical System, 1998, he lays out strong arguments for moral purchasing and ethical investing. Any purchasing or investing decision makes ethical and moral choices anyway, be default, he argues, and a market system must by definition reflect the morality of the society that conducts commerce via that system. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Ethical consumerism is the practice of boycotting products which a consumer believes to be associated with unnecessary exploitation or other unethical behaviour. ... Ethical investing, also known as Socially responsible investing or SRI attempts to ensure that invested funds are not used to violate the investors most basic moral values or ethical codes. ... A market system is any systematic process enabling many market players to bid and ask: helping bidders and sellers interact and make deals. ... For other uses, see Society (disambiguation). ...

Globalization, for instance, is driven by what he calls "an unexamined and absolutist value system whose principles and unseen meaning it lays bare." He criticizes capitalist scientific technology, transnational trade apparatuses, NATO wars and an expanding prison regime, as symptoms of a "new totalitarianism cumulatively occupying the world and propelling civil and ecological breakdowns." A KFC franchise in Kuwait. ... Theories of Value ask What sorts of things are good? Or: What does good mean? If we had to give the most general, catch-all description of good things, then what would that description be? When that question is answered with God, this is called Summum bonum. Many people believe... Scientism is a term mainly used as a pejorative[1][2][3] to accuse someone of holding that science has primacy over all other interpretations of life such as religious, mythical, spiritual, or humanistic explanations. ... A trade bloc is a large free trade area or free trade area formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements. ... Militarism or militarist ideology is the doctrinal view of a society as being best served (or more efficient) when it is governed or guided by concepts embodied in the culture, doctrine, system, or people of the military. ... A carceral state is a state modelled on a prison. ...

Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy, 2002, which outlines this analysis, also explains "the shared life-grounds, public sectors and cross-cultural movement of the "'new resistance'", and systematically defines the moral compass and constitutional standards of a global life economy alternative." Also see: 2002 (number). ...

A consistent theme is to argue strongly against any definition of the commons that excludes property controlled by the nation-state and refers only to atmosphere, oceans, genes and other "unowned" elements of the environment. To exclude terrestrial ecoregions, he argues, is to exclude biodiversity, watershed, river, and other resources that are under the sole purview of states to protect. This is in contrast to definitions that tend to refer to the commons only in terms of what is outside the control and jurisdiction of the nation-state. This is major point of tension between apolitical Greens and those engaged in left-wing politics to control state power - one not wholly resolved by green politics which has so far failed to fully control any nations. In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people -- often neighbouring landowners -- could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. ... The term nation-state, while often used interchangeably with the terms unitary state and independent state, refers properly to the parallel occurence of a state and a nation. ... “Air” redirects here. ... Animated map exhibiting the worlds oceanic waters. ... For a non-technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to Genetics. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Rainforests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth Biodiversity is the variation of taxonomic life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. ... A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (blue outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (green lines) of a contiguous area. ... For other uses, see River (disambiguation). ... Greens are people who support some or all of goals of a Green Party without necessarily working with or voting for that or any party. ... “Leftism” redirects here. ... Green politics or Green ideology is the ideology of the Green Parties, mainly informed by environmentalism, ecosophy and sustainable economics and aimed at developing a sustainable society. ...

McMurtry advocates a strict monetary policy that reinforces the actual value system of the society, opposes North American currency union, and has been a long standing member of the Canadian Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, which often publishes and distributes his work. It has been suggested that monetary theory be merged into this article or section. ... The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) is an international publishing and education centre based in Toronto, Canada. ...

He is considered by some to be a major figure in the evolution of global ethics, similar to stature to John Davies Humphries. More recently, Mcmurtry has come under criticism for taking the position that various government agencies and individuals in the United States were involved in orchestrating the atrocities of 911. Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the science (study) of morality. In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is good or right. ...

Partial list of major or recent works

• Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy (London and Sterling

Va: Pluto Press, 2002), 277 pages. Cloth £50 (240 by 160 mm), ISBN 0-7453-1890-8. Pbk. £15.99. (215 by 135 mm) ISBN 0-7453-1889-4.

• The Cancer Stage of Capitalism. London, Pluto Books, 1999
• Unequal Freedoms: The Global Markets As An Ethical System, Toronto: Garamond & Westport, Conn., 1998.
• Understanding War: A Philosophical Inquiry. Toronto: Science for Peace & Samuel Stevens, 1989.
• The Structure of Marx's World-View. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
• The Dimensions Of English. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
• Monogamy: A Critique The Monist 67(4): 588-600, 1972.
• Sex, Love and Friendship In Soble, Alan & Barbara Krishner, eds, Sex, Love and Friendship

Value Inquiry Book Series, Takoma: Rodopi, 1995.

• Education and the Market Model Journal of the Philosophy of Education 25(2): 209-218, 1991.
• How Competition Goes Wrong. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 8(2): 200-210, 1991.
• Rethinking the Military Paradigm. Inquiry (Europe) 34(4): 415-432, 1991.
• The Unspeakable: Understanding the System of Fallacy of the Media. Informal Logic 10(3):

133-150, 1988.

• Fascism and Neo-Conservatism: Is There a Difference? Praxis International 4(1): 86-102, 1983.
• Philosophical Method and Rise of Social Philosophy. Eidos, 11(2): 139-176, 1981.
• The Case for Children's Liberation. Interchange 10(3): 387-412, 1979-80.
• How to Tell the Left From the Right. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 9(3): 387-412, 1979.

External links

• official biography
• Speech on the future of the one-world government by tyranny
• John McMurtry speaks on the "ruling group mind" and the suppression of truth