Thursday, September 01, 2011

PTSD and moral injury

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My story about moral injury is finally out in Miller-McCune magazine. This is one of several articles to come out of my work on the Goodne...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Trust and the Golden Rule

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I did a fantastic job following the Golden Rule yesterday, largely because the only people I saw were my eightysomething mother and t...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Day 1 of being good

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Uh oh. What have I gotten myself into? How does a soul be good? The best I can think of right now is to start simple. Continued -->
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Seeking goodness in a new way

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I spent 365 days attempting to answer the question: What is goodness? Since I completed that quest on June 1, I’ve been bumbling around tr...

Shameless self promotion

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The August issue of The Progressive Magazine is out now, and it includes my essay, “Was My Father Evil?” My essay is not available online...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Are we good, or just lucky?

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I’ve spent the past year seeking to understand the true heart of good human beings. I’ve asked everybody I could to answer the question: W...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Falling off the empathy cliff into evil

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Simon Baron-Cohen argues that evil should be defined as the absence of empathy. In his new book, The Science of Evil: On Empathy and th...

The anti-Sam Harris points to a real moral operating system

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Google Engineering Director Damon Horowitz tackles the idea of using numbers and science to make ethical decisions and comes up with ...

Cool Stuff Ahead

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So, just when I decide to take a breather from all this goodness work, I stumble into some fascinating items online that must be shared. St...
Monday, June 13, 2011

What's next?

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The task I set for myself more than a year ago has been completed. I haven’t found the meaning of life, or even goodness, but I did d...

The Progressive & The Goodness Project

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I’m pleased to report that The Progressive will be publishing an updated version of my essay, “Was My Father Evil?” The essay is set to r...

My first theory of goodness

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My year is up. No more dodging the issue. It’s time for me to answer my own question: What is goodness? To do that, however, I have to...

Should goodness ever be defined, or what have I done?

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No more dodging the issue for me. Tomorrow is the 365th day of my quest, which means I have to finally give you my definition of good...

How I've been changed

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Nearly 365 days. Almost 525,948 minutes. That’s how long I’ve been thinking about the question of goodness. Not every minute, of cou...

Housekeeping

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For some reason, I wasn't able to transfer copy from my Goodness Project blog to this blog while I was away the last few weeks. Everythi...