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In my experience, mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
“Meaning, values, morality, and the good life must relate to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures—and, in our case, must lawfully depend upon events in the world and upon states of the human brain. Rational, open-ended, honest inquiry has always been the true source of insight into such processes. Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“And the fact that millions of people use the term “morality” as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.”
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
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Muhsin’s 2025 Year in Books
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