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Moral Contextualism

Ow. It's not that easy to present an in-depth analysis or synthesis of Moral Contextualism (MC for short), when it is a fairly recent devel…

Started by JaumeLatest Reply

So What About Quasi Realism?

In making a first small foray into Quasi Realism, I would like first to go back here to the very basics. Lets for a moment forget about the…

Started by Albert BakkerLatest Reply

The Moral Repository

I thought it might be kind of nice to have a thread where we can just add all the great stuff that we find which may not merit its own thre…

Started by Dallas the PhallusLatest Reply

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Frans de Waal's Bottom-Up Morality: We're Not Good Because Of God

In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our specie…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

26 Apr 22
Reply by Tom Sarbeck

Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil

Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil From casual violence to genocide, acts of cruelty can be traced back to how the perpetrator i…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

8 Apr 7, 2012
Reply by Tom Sarbeck

Violating morals! what do you think?!

A sexual revolution in the Middle East... Cool but, Islamists dont like that! Anther updates from the religion of peace! what do you think?…

Started by Hope

13 Nov 27, 2011
Reply by Hope

Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

Fairly decent blog post. Just copying a few select paragraphs below. - Dallas   By now, the decline of violence should be clear (if you’re…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

0 Nov 7, 2011

The Moral Repository

I thought it might be kind of nice to have a thread where we can just add all the great stuff that we find which may not merit its own thre…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

66 Oct 25, 2011
Reply by Dallas the Phallus

Why Is There Peace?, by Stephen Pinker

Another great essay by Stephen Pinker.   - Dallas   Why Is There Peace?Over the past century, violent images from World War II concentratio…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

0 Sep 19, 2011

Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty How important is our brain’s empathy circuit and what happens to society when it doesn’t work properly?…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

1 Sep 13, 2011
Reply by Richard W. Symonds

Exercises in Moral Dilemmas

This is a thread for moral dilemmas (a part of applied ethics), feel free to post your favorite moral dilemma, real of made up, and what yo…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

6 Sep 7, 2011
Reply by Unseen

If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural

From 2007. Nothing really new to this group, though. I like the moral dilemma Greene poses on page two. That one has not come up here befor…

Started by Dallas the Phallus

3 Sep 7, 2011
Reply by T A A

IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ENLIGHTENED MORAL ATHEIST, LET NOAM CHOMSKY BE YOUR INSPIRATION - NOT RICHARD DAWKINS

Noam Chomsky's atheist morality makes more sense to me than the atheist non-sense of 'Richard Dawkins & his Merrie Men'    http://dissi…

Started by Richard W. Symonds

8 Jul 29, 2011
Reply by Richard W. Symonds

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