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Category Archives: Ethics
The Myth Of Morality
Richard Joyce writes in this 2007 book: * We have evolved to categorize aspects of the world using moral concepts. Natural selection has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, demands … Continue reading
Common Examples Of Pathetic Thinking
I don’t like it when I notice the following in myself and in other people: * Other people have it easy. * That other group didn’t have to work for its success. * People in power are bad. * There’s … Continue reading
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New Yorker: Are Your Morals Too Good to Be True?
We tend to overestimate our driving ability and we tend to over-estimate our morality. Manvir Singh writes in The New Yorker Sep. 9, 2024: Scientists have shattered our self-image as principled beings, motivated by moral truths. Some wonder whether our … Continue reading
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Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe
David Brooks writes in the latest issue of The Atlantic: HOW AMERICA GOT MEAN In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. Over the past eight years or so, I’ve been … Continue reading
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‘The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition’
According to Margaret Thatcher: “The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true … Continue reading
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