Showing posts with label moral luck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moral luck. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Are we good, or just lucky?
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: What is goodness? Imagine my surprise when I interviewed MacArthur Fellow Jonathan Shay last week and discovered that goodness may have an aspect I never considered before. A good person, in fact, may be nothing more than a lucky person.
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