The purpose of this OP was to compare the nature of categorization in traditional objectivist thinking and the thinking that is recognized by new...
Is Lying Immoral (Sinful, Illegal)? I was raised in a Catholic family and went to Catholic schools and was taught by nuns that lying was a sin....
Beauty and Morality are Species of Value/ It is human nature to be attracted to the mere appearance of things; the survival of many kinds of...
Why is grooming, as displayed by monkeys, an indication of moral emotions? Emotions are instincts; they are something that is part of our...
How can we, the “man on the street”, Tom & Jane, gain an insight into the meaning of this dread of death? A dread so strong that we kill to...
I was educated in engineering but also had some interest in philosophy. My first philosophy course was Descartes' "Meditations on First...
Science of Morality, Anyone? Where, in American culture, is the domain of knowledge that we would identify as morality studied and taught? I...
Virtual World versus Real World Wo/man worships and fears power; we enthusiastically give our loyalty to our leader. Sapiens are at heart...
Extinction and the Dread of Insignificance Becker compares three great thinkers Otto Rank, Wilhelm Reich, and Carl Jung to conclude that the...
We Are Meaning Creating Creatures The great truth of human nature is that wo/man strives for meaning. S/he imposes on raw experience symbolic...
Turtles and Humans Have Much in Common I had once concluded it to be natural that when confronted by a new idea humans tended to do a turtle;...
I copied this from the Internet 12/1980. Dealing with guilt. "Coming to Terms with Vietnam," by Peter Marin, Harpers, December 1980, 41-56. "The...
“Repay to the living that it is they find themselves owing the dead” This phrase is part of an article “Coming to Terms with Vietnam”...
McMansions equals heroic action for American citizens. "We're not selling shelter," says the president of Toll Brothers, a builder of upscale...
One reason that I posted this was because I wanted to introduce a word that is so very important to the sciences of psychology and psychoanalysis....
Mom and dad were heroes I was born in 1934 during the Great Depression. Dad drove a city bus in Amarillo Texas. My family moved to a very...
Learning how to eat a steak with intellectual sizzle In grades K-12 we have had teachers take us by the hand and introduce us to new domains...
The Catholic Church dominated Western society for hundreds of years. The local priests taught the people what they needed to do to save their...
Tap..tap..tap..We are blind creatures tapping through life Richard Feynman, now deceased, was a theoretical physicist and professor of physics...
Cyber bullying: Technology and McLuhan The cruel mob pursued 13 year old Megan Meier through our high tech “social networking site MySpace and...
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