Quillette
Misunderstanding Equality
11+ min · · If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences. · Shared by 33, including Gabriele, Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view
5 min · · By using ‘distanced self-talk’, you can leverage the structure of language to take a step back and see the bigger picture · Shared by 458, including Albert Ràfols, Nir Eyal, Rick Powell, fnord, Gabriele, Matthias Lampe
The Atlantic
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
20+ min · · Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning. · Shared by 302, including Boas Ruh, Carl Zimmer, Ashley Parker, Vaughan Bell, Virginia Hughes, l. ones, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Keith Frankish, Alice Wong 王美華, Stig Ørskov, Rick Powell, Steve Silberman
Prospect
What Hannah Arendt knew about love
4 min · · The celebrated thinker once wrote that love was the most antipolitical of forces—but she also believed it had the power to change the world · Shared by 122, including Rick Powell, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine
The Guardian
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
20+ min · · The long read: A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right? · Shared by 425, including Albert Ràfols, Connie Ragen Green, Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Miguel Angel Escotet, Evan Selinger, Gregg Caruso, Uyên Đỗ, Anita Hill, Robert Talisse, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, justin caouette, Barry Ritholtz, Shubhankar Adhikari, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social
The Atlantic
How to Buy Happiness
5 min · · The joys of money are nothing without other people. · Shared by 350, including Edney Souza 🧙♂️, Christian Hartmann, Miguel Angel Escotet, Gabriele, Rick Powell, Guy Kawasaki, Tim Hayden, Jeff Atwood, Jeremiah Owyang, Gerd Leonhard
Aeon+Psyche
The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity
7 min · · Humiliation requires a complicit audience. To become truly ‘decent societies’, we need to educate people against joining in · Shared by 265, including Rick Powell, l. ones, Jason Silva, Miguel Angel Escotet, Matthias Lampe
Aeon+Psyche
To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable
5 min · · To survive society’s problems, today reasonableness isn’t enough; we need citizens to recognise beliefs have consequences · Shared by 32, including Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Doug Sundheim, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us)
The New Yorker
The Equality Conundrum
19+ min · · We all agree that inequality is bad. But what kind of equality is good? · Shared by 345, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Juliana de Albuquerque | @ajuliana@mas.to, Pat Kua, Andrei Luca, Jochen Burkhard, Nilofer Merchant, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Robert Lepenies, Rick Powell, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl
Vox
Imagining the nonviolent state
20+ min · · What if nonviolence wasn’t an inhuman standard demanded of the powerless, but an ethic upon which we reimagined the state? · Shared by 65, including Ezra Klein, Brad Brooks, dewang mishra, Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Why we love tyrants
11+ min · · Psychoanalysis explains how authoritarians energise the hatred, self-pity and delusion while promising heaven on Earth · Shared by 31, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
How the cruel moraliser uses a halo to disguise his horns
15+ min · · Cruelty and morality seem like polar opposites – until they join forces. Beware those who persecute in the name of principle · Shared by 189, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Gregg Caruso, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Liv 😷, Patricia Churchland, Tim, John Tasioulas, Rick Powell, Paul Graham, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Kevin Roberts, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Kathleen Stock, Anita Leirfall, Howard Getson
Nautilus Magazine
How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
11+ min · · Here’s something you probably didn’t do this morning: Look in the mirror and ask, am I a jerk? It seems like a reasonable question.… · Shared by 15, including Rick Powell, Howard Getson
The Guardian
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
12+ min · · When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman · Shared by 1344, including Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Jeff Atwood, Austin Kleon, Matthew Herper, Chris Hadfield, Jay Rosen, Dan Snow, Caterina Fake, Marsha Collier, Rutger Bregman, Alfie Kohn, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Dr. Pete Meyers, Larry Ferlazzo, Matt Zoller Seitz, Steve Case, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, BrendanEich
3quarksdaily.com
Thinking a Way Out
6 min · · by Holly Case About 1,500 years ago, the Chinese literary critic Liu Hsieh wrote The Literary Mind. It includes a section on metaphor—hsing—which he describes as “response to a stimulus.” [W]hen we… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
3quarksdaily.com
Minima Pedagogica: Teachable Moments from the Damaged Life
20+ min · · by Eric J. Weiner Dedication As an “intellectual in emigration,” Theodor Adorno wrote Mimima Moralia, his book of philosophical, sociological, cultural, and psychological reflections “from the… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell