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An Economy from Life and for Life

By Claudio Naranjo — 2016

The evolution of society and its effect on human values.

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An Introduction to Conscience

Listen to your conscience, the old saying goes. But how do we follow that advice, and what do we do when staying true to our conscience contradicts conventional wisdom and behaviors expected or encouraged by society? Before listening to our conscience, we must be capable of identifying what it is.

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How Your Brain Invents Morality

Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

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Searching for Our Souls

Our modern society has gone astray during much of the past several centuries. While every person is in pursuit of one thing or another, we are searching for our own soul.

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How to Respond to Oppression

Oppression is everywhere and exists in almost every form. How should believers respond to oppression when they have to face it? Fethullah Gülen responds.

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How Believing in an Afterlife Can Ruin Your Life

Surely any support for a belief in an afterlife, no matter how tenuous, is better than none? Isn’t it bound to be a comfort? It may not work out like that.

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Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate

Writing “The Plague” in the form of a historical “chronicle” was a hopeful gesture, implying human continuity, a vessel to carry the memory of war as an inoculation against future armed conflicts.

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The Rebel Hero: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning Amidst the Absurd

In Camus’ humanism man must look within and without in order to feel relief from his suffering in seeing himself as part of the whole of mankind:

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Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus’s Metaphysical Rebellion

Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently known as an author of fine French literature but he was also a philosopher.

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Does Dietrich Bonhoeffer Have Any Relevance for Today?

In these days of solitude and waiting, we have to remain connected to the sources of our strength.

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Moral Minority: Whither the U.S. Protestant Left?

Barber spreads a gospel of witness and resistance in the tradition of civil rights and anti-war leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Sloane Coffin. . .

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Moral Philosophy