“Moral communities are fragile things, hard to build and easy to destroy,” the psychologist Jonathan Haidt writes in The Righteous Mind. When you are raised in a culture without ethical structure, you become internally fragile. You have no moral compass to give you direction, no permanent ideals to which you can swear ultimate allegiance. “He […]
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as ethicist Martha Nussbaum writes, “A good doctor is also a good poisoner.” In other words, the difference between a life-saving doctor and a life-taking poisoner or between an able artist and a master forger lies not in the possession of knowledge or skill, but in its rightful application.
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Louise Antony argues that we can in “Good Minus God” Op-Ed Opinion in NYT, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/good-minus-god/ Louise M. Antony teaches philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Why do so many people dislike atheists? I gather that many people believe that atheism implies nihilism — that rejecting God means rejecting morality. Atheism does not entail that […]