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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Morality Researcher Under Investigation
What happens to the field of moral psychology when one of its most prominent researchers is under investigation for tampering with his findings? This question is anything but academic since the news broke this week about a years-long investigation at … Continue reading
Posted in morality, psychology
Tagged Edge Foundation, Harvard University, Marc Hauser, The New Science of Morality
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Morality Is the Problem We Refuse to Face
As I continue to wade through the discussions from the Edge Foundation’s conference on The New Science of Morality, I keep bumping into ideas that set off fireworks in my brain. These, by the way, are delicious, sweet fireworks. Today … Continue reading
The Curse of the Liberal
It’s been weeks since the Edge Foundation held its amazing conference on The New Science of Morality, and I still haven’t been able to digest all that was discussed. I couldn’t attend this select meeting, but like many other people, … Continue reading
Posted in morality, psychology
Tagged Edge Foundation, Jonathan Haidt, moral psychology, The New Science of Morality
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How Do You Practice Goodness?
I’m not only seeking an intellectual understanding of goodness on this quest, but also a path to practicing goodness. The problem, of course, is figuring out how to actually do that. In other words, how exactly does a human being … Continue reading
Posted in Practicing Goodness, The Quest
Tagged First Do No Harm, meditation, practicing goodness, prayer
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Sam Harris, Science and a Universal Morality
Bestselling author Sam Harris has proposed yet another heretical idea: the notion that science can and should answer questions of good and evil, right and wrong. He appears to be arguing that science should shape morality and define goodness and … Continue reading
Posted in morality, The Reading List
Tagged Project Reason, Sam Harris, TED, The Moral Landscape
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Proposition 8 and Sadness
I’m interrupting your regularly scheduled goodness programming to contemplate an issue of politics and civil rights, and to take note of the federal court ruling overturning Proposition 8. To my thinking, this decision is a very good thing, but I … Continue reading
The Soul-Crushing Boredom, Banality, etc., of Goodness
Goodness is hideously boring, banal, unsophisticated and ignorant of the realities of life, among many other things, or at least that’s what I’ve been told as I’ve journeyed on this quest. Not everyone has this attitude, but some do. As … Continue reading
An Aspiration
A wise friend suggested to me the other day that goodness is not a state of being, or even a set of actions. Goodness, she said, is an aspiration. “I start each day seeking to be good and always fail, … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Good, definitions
Tagged Dictionary.com, Hillary Clinton, presidency, United States
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