an online book by David Gurteen
Morals are shared cultural norms and values that guide individuals on how to behave in society. These norms are shaped by social, emotional, and intuitive factors and are based on ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, and justice. Morals vary across cultures and communities.
A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A moral is a lesson in a story or real life.
Credit: Wikipedia - moralsIn this book, Moral Courage, Rushworth Kidder reveals that moral courage is the bridge between talking ethics and doing ethics. Defining it as a readiness to endure danger for the sake of principle, he explains that the courage to act is found at the intersection of three elements: action based on core values, awareness of the Continue reading Moral Courage Rushworth M. Kidder (2006)
My research examines the intuitive foundations of morality. I have found that moral reasoning is generally done post-hoc, to search for confirmation of our fast, automatic intuitive responses. I am therefore skeptical of the power of reasoning to bring us to the right conclusions, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in … | Jonathan Haidt Continue reading Moral Reasoning Is Generally Done Post-hoc Jonathan Haidt
In this book, The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. Credit: Amazon The Righteous Mind Continue reading The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (2013)
There’s more to morality than harm and fairness. | Jonathan Haidt Continue reading There’s More to Morality Than Harm and Fairness Jonathan Haidt (2012)
Agency is our ability to make intentional choices and act independently, shaping our lives and identities. The challenge is transitioning from acquiring knowledge to actively using it in the real world. We need to embrace the dynamic nature of agency to turn knowledge into impactful actions and decisions. Continue reading From Knowledge to Agency Developing agency in a changing world – cultivating the capacity to act
Values The Knowledge Delusion Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Morals are values. They are a set of principles that help us evaluate and distinguish right from wrong, good from bad for ourselves and society. What are Continue reading What Are Morals? Principles of right or wrong behaviour
Polarization is reshaping how we perceive and communicate with one another. Disagreement has turned into division, and conversation into confrontation. We need new ways of talking that rebuild trust, restore understanding, and make it possible to think together across our differences. Continue reading Polarization Is Tearing Us Apart We are polarized across political, religious, moral, and racial divides
Our beliefs are deeply rooted and are based on little evidence, yet we argue and fight over them. It is essential that we better understand the nature of our beliefs and how they are formed and learn to question and revise them. Continue reading Rethinking Our Beliefs It is not easy to change our beliefs
