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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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Governor Sanford and the Failure of Moral Politics

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Religion, Mark Sanford, Gay Rights, Equal Rights, Religion and Politics, Argentina, Morality, Mark Sanford Argentina, Sanford Affair, Moral Hazard, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

It's satisfying to lambast a staunch social conservative for an extramarital affair on another continent. But the real failure in this sad story is a political platform based on a personal moral code.

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President Obama: The Birth of a Moral Leader

Carter Phipps | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Neiman, Abdul Aziz Said, Enlightennext Magazine, Politics, Barak Obama, Moral Clarity, Morality, Alan Wolfe, Eli Weisel, Politics News
Carter Phipps

The moral heroes of the 20th century were defined not by their heroic use of power, but by their inspired opposition to it.

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Sci-Fi Morality: Could Aliens Save Us from Prejudice?

Jamil Zaki | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Rwanda, Emotions, Neuroscience, Implicit Bias, Independence Day, Altruism, Science, Hurricane Katrina, Morality, Psychology, Watchmen, Israel, Prejudice, Science Fiction, World News
Jamil Zaki

Mountains of evidence suggest that being part of a group changes our perceptions of members of other groups at startlingly basic levels.

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Yes We Are Them and They Are Us

Roderick Spencer | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Morality, Obama, Clinton, Power, Redemption, Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Torture Photos, World News
Roderick Spencer

Until both sides have the courage to recognize themselves in each other, and in the torture pictures, debate is useless. People on the Left are just as capable of rationalizing cruelty as people on the Right.

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Be Good for Goodness Sake

Valerie Tarico | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Kiva.org, Morality, Microcredit, Atheism, Religion, Charity, Donating to Charity, Giving, Living News
Valerie Tarico

Nonbelievers are coalescing into moral communities which, when freed from the constraints of dogma or proselytism, invest themselves in doing good for goodness sake.

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A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as...Liberal

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Anwr, Climate Chagne, Mccain, Obama, Morality, Torture, Bush, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

We should really abandon the archaic monikers of liberal and conservative or left-wing and right-wing. I propose using different terminology that is less constraining.

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Another Reason to Get to the Bottom of Waterboarding

Barry Schwartz | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Morality, Obama Agenda, Torture, Water-Boarding, Bush-Torture, Morality Crisis, Torture-Bush-Administration, Waterboarding, Politics News
Barry Schwartz

Punishment is not the point; moral clarity and moral seriousness is.

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Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gay Rights, Susan Boyle, Martin Luther King, Youtube, Racism, Morality, Malcolm Gladwell, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Entertainment News
Jay Michaelson

I've learned, however, not to dignify the "gut reactions" of bigotry with any kind of value. This is how moral progress takes place: we learn to stop trusting the gut reactions based on falsehoods we've been taught.

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Morality Originates in Religion...Not

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Christianity, Morality, Religiosity, Biological Destiny, Destiny, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawins, Higher Power, Heaven and Hell, God, Heaven, Hell, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

Morality is our biological destiny, not a gift from god.

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A Modest Proposal

Dan Agin | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cantor, Evolution, Morality, Genes, Boehner, Bachmann, Politics News
Dan Agin

On opening our newspaper this morning (our "newspaper of record"), we find an Op-Ed essay arguing that human morality has been provided to us by Darwi...

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Why (Almost) All Bonuses Are A Bad Idea

Barry Schwartz | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Morality, Bonuses, Business News
Barry Schwartz

Like teachers trying to improve the standardized test scores of their students, bonuses encourage a narrowness of vision that results in consequences like the ones we're living through today.

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What to Do About "Mad as Hell"

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aig Bonuses, Morality, Populism, Economic Crisis, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Economy, Financial Crisis, Aig, Aig Federal Bailouts, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Recession, AIG Scandal, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

What would it take to change a whole subculture that has escaped all ethical boundaries?

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What the Future Holds: A Blue Sweater

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Morality, Jacqueline Novogratz, Poverty, Refugeeism, Living News
Deepak Chopra

But just as no society comes out of a war the same as it went in, the U.S. isn't going to emerge from this recession the way it went in.

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Hey Mr. Bioethicist, Scientists are Not Amoral

Michael Eisen | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Morality, Stem Cell Research, Bioethics, Stem Cells, Medical Ethics, Science Scientists, Sceince Ethics, Ethics, Politics News
Michael Eisen

This conflation of science and scientists is offensive and ignorant. In my experience, no one has thought about the moral side of scientific issues more deeply than scientists.

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Rush Limbaugh: Icon of Anti-Morality

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Morality, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Religion, Cpac, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

With no religious tradition to anchor him, Limbaugh can swing wider. Anything he judges against is condemned, not by scripture, but simply by him being pissed off.

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Selling Your Soul to the Devil for Fun and Profit

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home

Read More: U.S. Economy, Credit Cards, Consumerism, Financial Meltdown, Madoff, Tv, Faustian Bargain, Morality, Hector Berlioz, Spirituality, Distribution, Inherent Goodwill, Walt Whitman, Bob Dylan, Mephistopheles, Home News
Stephen Mo Hanan

Recently in New York I went to a preview performance of a rarely staged piece of music theater called "The Damnation of Faust," by Hector Berlioz. In ...

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The Media's Sexual Irresponsibility

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Proof Blog, Sex, Tracy Clark-Flory, Alcohol, New York Times, Morality, Violet Blue, Best Sex Writing 2009, Jim Atkinson, Sexuality, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Media News
Rachel Kramer Bussel

Those of us who write about sex, not to mention all those heathen divorcees and masturbators, get plenty of flak. I'm tired of sex being seen as scandalous, inconsequential, or worse, pointless.

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The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Morality, Bioethics, Ethics, Octuplets, Single Mothers, Mothering, Giving Birth, Single Motherhood, California Octuplets, Parenting, Octuplets Born in California, Childbirth, Parenthood, Living News
Valerie Tarico

Abortion opponents have no trouble saying that killing blastocysts is wrong. They don't say blastocysts. They say people. And then they attribute souls and personhood to fertilized eggs.

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Gaza, Morality, and the Jews

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Morality, Yitzhak Rabin, J Street, Israel, Gaza, Jewish, World News
Jeremy Ben-Ami

I remain deeply committed to working for the day when the two sides, the two peoples, recognize that their only future is to live in two independent states side by side in peace and security.

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A Failure of Morality

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Conception, Religion, Morality, God, Pope, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Bush exploits our lands and pollutes our air and drills offshore because he believes he has a god-given right to resource extraction. That is immoral.

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Of Markets & Morality

George Mitrovich | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Morality, Bill Kristol, Economy, Business News
George Mitrovich

What's wrong with this picture? Billions for banks and Wall Street and nothing for Main Street, nothing for those Americans who once constituted the Middle Class, never mind the poor.

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Spiritual Dimensions of Obama's Leadership

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Morality, Obama, Inspiration, Higher Consciousness, Barack Obama, Spirituality, Politics News
Stephen H. Dinan

I highly recommend the following article by Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, which takes an in-depth look at the subtler dimensions of Obama's leadership.

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The Moral Subtext of the Bailout Debate

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Conservatives, Tarita Virtue, $700 Billion Bailout, Henry Paulson, Morality, Mccain, Free Market, Business News
Nathaniel Frank

While trickle-down economics theory can be used to mask a raw power grab, it is also a philosophy of moral superiority which many conservatives have come to truly believe.

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Politics And Morals: 5 Values That Influence Your Vote

Ted.com | Posted 10.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Morality, TED Conference, Jonathan Haidt, Political Choice, Living News

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the moral foundations of politics and explores how we might develop more productive discourse by understanding the...

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