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"Radical Evil"

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Theodicy, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Atrocities, Morality, Auschwitz, Eichmann, Evil, Destructiveness, Totalitarianism, Nihilism, Books, Books News
Robert D. Stolorow

Richard Bernstein has written an important philosophical inquiry into the phenomenon of evil (Bernstein 2002), an inquiry that will be of great value to psychoanalysts.

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Rom Houben, Law, Culture Wars, Hoax, Liberals, Belgium, Civil Rights, James Randi, Euthanasia, Religion, Politics, Human Rights, Conservatives, Dalton Trumbo, Right to Die, Health, Coma, Ethics, Arthur Caplan, Morality, Technology, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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The Health Care-Abortion Issue: An Open Letter To The Catholic Bishops

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak, Reproductive Rights, Birth, Pro Choice, Catholicism, Children, Pregnancy, Catholic Bishops, Pro-Life, Babies, Catholics, Religion, Morality, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Spirituality, Politics News
Valerie Tarico

Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.

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Thank God I'm An Atheist

David Horton | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Morality, Atheism, Living News
David Horton

From time to time some religious leader, somewhere, seeking to be provocative, will announce, smugly, that of course all morality comes from religion and therefore atheists, those scum of the Earth, have no morality.

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"Strategic" Mortgage Default: Why It's Not Unethical

The Big Money | Mark Gimein | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: The Big Money, Slate, Mortgage Crisis, Morality, Strategic Defaults, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Business News

Last month a study from the credit reporting agency Experian and consulting outfit Oliver Wyman estimated that close to a fifth of troubled mortgages ...

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Fossil Fuel Is the New Slavery: Morally and Economically Corrupt

Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, Economy, John Kerry, Waxman-Markey, Slavery, Climate Change, Morality, Climate Bill, Green News
Robin Chase

Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.

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Understanding the South Ain't Easy

D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: South, Politics, Jim Wallis, Religion and Politics, Christianity, Morality, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

If I must accept a party affiliation as a label, it would most likely be the religious left. If that sounds weird to you, it's merely a testament to the excellent job the right has done to brand itself as the party of the faithful.

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The Ethics of Insight

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychotherapy, Carol Smaldino, Morality, Distraction, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Ethics, Religion and Morality, Politics of Distraction, The Shadow, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.

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Our Morality is Killing Us -- A Reflection for Rosh Hashanah

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Morality, The-Golden-Rule, Living News
Carol Smaldino

It is another New Year for the Jews, but it is also the official opening of schools, the beginning of another new year of learning; perhaps of learning how to question as much as to answer.

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The Stages of Moral Development

Alan Lurie | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Universal, Hsbc, HSBC Bank, Misfortune, Lawrence Kohlberg, Values, Ethnocentricity, Worldcentric, Morality, Mystical, Conventional, Egocentricism, Living News
Alan Lurie

Just as life grew evolutionarily, and human beings grow physically, socially, and mentally, we also grow in how we interpret what occurs in our lives -- in our morality.

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Isn't Adequate Healthcare a Moral Issue?

Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: California, Type 2 Diabetes, Statistics, Blindness, Moral Issues, Homosexuality, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Amputations, Ethics, Same Sex Marriage, Health Care Reform, Morality, Diabetes, Health Care, African-Americans, Gay Marriage, Kidney Disease, Home News
Byron Williams

Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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A Few Thoughts on Mindfulness, Lobsters, and Serial Killers

Todd Kashdan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, History, Intelligence, Colonialism, Mindfulness, Food, Morality, Disability, Happiness, Parents, Living News
Todd Kashdan

If we rely on categories, labels, rules, and what other people say and do, we will miss out on the rich complexity of life. We will make less optimal decisions. We will be less creative and less productive, and feel less autonomous.

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The Problem with Gen Y and Its Search for Answers in Harry

Anna Kelner | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Morality, Millennial Generation, Harry Potter Fans, Harry Potter, Generation Y, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Entertainment News
Anna Kelner

The generation that got everything clearly lacks something. Call it patience, call it obedience, call it willingness, but the traits that Gen Yers must cultivate are ironically exalted in their favorite children's story.

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We Won't Do It, Mr. Rose

Robert Rose | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Morality, Education, Courage, Group Cohesion, Politics News
Robert Rose

That day, with that class, I felt I had managed to somehow teach and instill the virtues that I still believe are what has made and can remake American greatness.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: A Brisk Trade in Paul Giamatti: Sophie Barthes on Cold Souls

Dan Persons | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Russia, Stanislavski, Soul, Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman, Black Market, Paul Giamatti, Film, Interview, Movies, New York, Exclusive, St. Petersburg, David Strathairn, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Russian Mafia, Acting, Morality, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.

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Does the Thread Count? Yes, and So Does Honesty

Mike Hegedus | Posted 08.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Baseball, Honesty, Thread Count, The Golden Rule, Bernard Madoff, Morality, Sheets, San Quentin, Integrity, Ethics, Business Ethics, Business News
Mike Hegedus

Is there such a thing as "situational ethics" and morality, or are we simply kidding ourselves every day?

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The Other Walter Cronkite

Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Morality, Journalism, Interfaith Alliance, Death, Walter Cronkite, Media News
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy

Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" because he held as sacred his commitment to journalism that rigorously distinguished professional objectivity from personal opinion.

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Should Physicians Participate in the Death Penalty?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Murder, Srini Pillay, Law, Guilt, Brain, Crime, Srinivasan Pillay, Needles, Ethics, Healing, Death Penalty, Morality, Physician, Gunshots, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

I submit that delaying the death penalty is an indication that our own brains are in conflict about killing people in the first place.

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Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living

Read More: New Atheists, Atheism, Duke Ellington, Nazis, Sam Harris, Ethics, Ts Eliot, Richard Rorty, Morality, Picasso, Richard Dawkins, Wh Auden, Vivaldi, Peter Singer, Living News
Frank Schaeffer

If you deprive people of the solace of a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselves, you aren't just stripping away window dressing, but demolishing the supporting structure of a happy life

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Harry's Finest Moment... Cut from Film

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Morality, Harry Potter, Injustice, Choice, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Entertainment News
Leah Anthony Libresco

We must face not only the physical death suffered by one of Harry's mentors but the death of our ability to blindly idealize our leaders, to accept them as unquestionably good.

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A Comical Failure of Moral Values: Twisted Ideas of Theory and Practice in the Republican Party

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Morality, Sanford, Republicans, Ensign, Scandal, Sex, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

The appeal to God to promote a political agenda does not work. Republicans are all the proof we need. We need a new way.

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The Uncomfortable Circle: W.W.M.J.D?

Xeth Feinberg | Posted 08.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Jackson, Morality, Cartoon, Comedy, Xeth, Comedy News
Xeth Feinberg

Xeth Feinberg takes on a fallen idol.

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A Second City Warning to Obama

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Second City, Uninsured, Underinsured, Chicago, Political Communication, Cost Control, Rationing, Health Care Reform, Political Satire, Obama Community Organizer, Morality, Obama, Universal Health Care, Republicans, Chicago News
Michael L. Millenson

The fact that Second City comics in the heart of Chicago are successfully playing to GOP-fueled fears of rationing should raise a bright red warning flag at the White House.

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Clarity and Intention in Business and Life

Jen Grisanti | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Small Business, The American Dream, Books, American Dream, Business News, Morality, Clarity, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Intentions, Intention, Living News
Jen Grisanti

How do we turn our dreams into a reality? We approach life knowing our purpose and tapping into the power of intention as well as moving past the fear.

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