Tag: morality
group name: philiasophia
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January 08, 2007 05:59 PM EST --
The end of last year I finally made a decision to stop eating meat and to become more aware of how the products I used were manufactured, whether they were tested on other animals. . . . more
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March 28, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
Exploring a New Humanism
I first met Greg Epstein, as it happens, at a fantastic conference pulled together by Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. This was an energetic gathering . . . more
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October 10, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
Four aspects may be considered in answering this question: religious morality, morality and nature, individual morality, and social morality. Our focus today is on religious morality.
RELIGIOUS MORALITY . . . more
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November 08, 2006 06:51 PM EST --
From the beginning there has been great speculation about where morality and ethics come from. Have they always been a part of the world? Did they originate from some supernatural being or . . . more
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November 11, 2006 01:32 PM EST --
Obviously, morality and the law are not necessarily one and the same thing when two people can be lawyers, and having studied similar material, one is moral but the other is not. Is law one thing . . . more
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November 08, 2006 06:04 PM EST --
Morality and nature refers to the link between human beings and the natural world. It is often called "natural morality". This type of morality had prevailed in nearly all primitive . . . more
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March 17, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Liberating the Founders
I've enjoyed Steven Waldman as a journalist and commentator through the last two election seasons because he refused to tolerate or perpetuate the culture wars that embittered . . . more
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November 20, 2006 07:00 AM EST --
"War - armed conflict openly carried out between two nations or states, or between different parties of the same state, in which people, many of them completely innocent, are killed, often violently." . . . more
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January 08, 2007 01:53 PM EST --
This is one of the messages that was delivered to me in childhood. I was the freak who made his mom find wild-life rehabilitators when we located injured or poisoned birds and squirrels. When . . . more
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May 04, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Up to now I have resisted interviewing Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, who have coined best-selling battle cries like "the end of faith" and "the God delusion." They validly critique . . . more
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September 07, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
At the beginning of this conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous and again at the end, we discuss a seminal prayer-poem of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Unetaneh Tokef. It is a recital of commonplace mortal . . . more
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November 26, 2006 12:09 AM EST --
There is this myth out there that Liberalism, or Secularism, or the theory of Evolution, is singularly or collectively to blame for the decline in morality in America.
I disagree.
Here is my theory. . . . more
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September 23, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. We've come to imagine him as a godless naturalist and to see the publication of this book as a dramatic moment in history, one that created an . . . more
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June 20, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
QUESTION: What immigrant group was attacked with these accusations?
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July 11, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
A Sophisticated Theology Behind the Musical Tradition
I once met an American tourist who went to Siberia — and was peppered with questions about Joe Carter. Joe had made one of his riveting . . . more
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January 26, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position. -- Christine Stevens . . . more
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October 05, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
I first met Joan Chittister a decade ago. I'd heard many entertaining and admiring stories about Sr. Joan's passion and intelligence and wit. She would scribble notes for her next book or column . . . more
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June 23, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning
The word "sustainability" has entered our common vocabulary, a critical concept for the period ahead. But like every catchword, new and old, this . . . more
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January 31, 2007 02:59 PM EST --
Last week I published a thought experiment intended to stimulate thought about animal rights:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976895184
For such a short piece it received a good . . . more
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May 22, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Approaching Prayer
Prayer is as old as time and as vast as human experience, found in every culture across history. Counter-intuitively perhaps, prayer is a far more common bond among Americans . . . more
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