By Alden Whitman — 1970
“Three passions, simple but strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
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If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world—and there clearly are—then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Science can, in principle, help us understand what we should do and should want — and, perforce, what other people should do and want in order to live the best lives possible.
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To the extent that we can sort out what is good and true in ourselves, we live up to the moral impulses that we value.