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Category Archives: Ethics
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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A Person-Centered Approach to Moral Judgment
Academics Eric Luis Uhlmann, David A. Pizarro, and Daniel Diermeier publish in 2015: * There is a growing body of evidence that individuals are fundamentally motivated to evaluate others on a moral dimension—people quickly and easily attribute morally good or … Continue reading
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Virtue Signalling Is Virtuous
Philosopher Neil Levy writes: * Animals use signals for a variety of purposes. For instance, gazelles famously signal their fitness by stotting (jumping up and down on the spot) in front of predators (FitzGibbon and Fanshawe 1988). Peacocks even more … Continue reading
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The Moral Psychology Handbook
Here are some highlights from the chapter on race in this 2010 book: * evolutionary psychologists hold that people in many cultures and historical epochs have relied on skin color and other bodily features to classify their fellows, and have … Continue reading
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Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency
Here are some highlights from this 2015 book by my favorite moral philosopher — John M. Doris: In 1957, a marketing consultant named James Vicary reported huge sales increases at a New Jersey theater concession. All one need do, Vicary … Continue reading
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Liberals, race, religion, bigots, essentialism (8-4-22)
The Left derides those who ascribe essential qualities to Jews, Christians, Muslims, blacks, whites, Anglos, Germans, Japanese, Nigerians. And the Left is right. Just because somebody is a member of one of these groups does not determine anything. There is … Continue reading
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
Here are some highlights from this 2010 book by Samuel Moyn: * Historians of human rights approach their subject, in spite of its novelty, the way church historians once approached theirs. They regard the basic cause—much as the church historian … Continue reading
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