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How Your Brain Invents Morality

By Sigal Samuel — 2019

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

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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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Scot N. DuFour
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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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Stephen R. Haynes
2020
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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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Maxine Phillips
2015
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“Racism May Target Black People, But It Damns a Democracy and It Damns Humanity”

Why Rev. William Barber thinks we need a moral revolution.

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Sean Illing
2020
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The Moral Landscape: Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms

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.

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Sam Harris
2010
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Moral Confusion in the Name of “Science”

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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Sam Harris
2010
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5 Reasons Why Plato and Aristotle Still Matter Today

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle may seem like the quintessential Dead White Males, but in fact they’re very much alive.

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Arthur Herman
2013
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How to Be Good—A Very Tough Problem

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.

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Deepak Chopra
2017
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