Killing Witchcraft with Kindness
By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator From July 2013 – June 2014, I oversaw Pathfinders Project, a yearlong international service trip sponsored by Foundation Beyond Belief as the […]
Tag Archives: ethics
Moral Heroism, Pt 2: How to Become a Hero (Or At Least Get Started)
In my first “Moral Heroism” post, I argued that empathy isn’t the only trait we need to deal with moral decisions. We also need a sense of “heroism”: The feeling […]
Moral Heroism Pt 1: Empathy’s Faults & Heroism to the Rescue
I’ve written before about the importance of teaching people to see things through the eyes of other people. One commentator pointed out that a quicker way to say “seeing things through the eyes […]
Why the Buddha is a Better Modern Role Model Than Jesus
Jesus says a lot of great things – don’t get me wrong. But too often he, at best, fails to comment on some of the most important issues of the […]
Moral Tribes to Moral Lives: Interview w Harvard’s Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene, who visited the Yale Humanist Community on February 5th, is a Princeton-trained philosopher, Harvard professor, and author. He uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to tackle abstract questions […]
Tending to the Demise: Book Review of ‘Being Mortal’
In America, and indeed worldwide, death is an abstract that lingers at the periphery of waking life until its reality comes crashing down. Though many of us see depictions of […]
Survival Achieved–Now What?
Humans, as a species, no longer struggle to survive. We survive. Arguably too well. We inhabit almost every corner of the globe and have figured out how to survive in […]
