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Robert Reich, Economics , Supercapitalism

Economics " We have become super-materialistic robots. " From... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14848767 Book Tour is a new Web feature and podcast. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.

Morals

If morality is a natural feature of society, should we not give it a great deal of examination?

Several themes, such as the incorrectness of murder, are part of all societies. There is a variety of differences in the values held by separate societies. It is in these differences, and/or lack of knowing/understanding of the correct ethical construct that we find the conflicts in our human history.

Normative Ethical Principles and Theories: A Brief Overview http://www.stedwards.edu/ursery/norm.htm

Introduction to Ethics

from http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/INTROETH.HTM

LAWRENCE KOHLBERG

LAWRENCE KOHLBERG
1927-1987

from http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Kohlberg.htm

Lawrence Kohlberg spent many years researching how an individual develops their own moral codes. First, Kohlberg was born into wealth on October 25, 1927 in Bronxville, New York. Even though he was wealthy, he chose to become a sailor; and after World War II, he helped to smuggle Jews through the British blockade of Palestine.

Scull and Bones

George R. Price

from... http://www.economist.com/node/16160773

WHEN George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men: dishevelled, smelly and cold. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, both distinguished British evolutionary biologists. All seven men had come to mourn an American scientist who helped to unpick the riddle of why people should ever be kind to one another, who had chosen to give away his clothes, his possessions and his home, and who, when his generosity was exhausted, slashed his own throat with a pair of scissors, aged 52.

Daniel Ellsberg

Jay Ackroyd went to a conference last week where he heard Daniel Ellsberg speak. He apparently recounted one of my favorite Ellsberg stories, and since it's one of my favorites I'm going to repeat it in full below. It's from Ellsberg's book Secrets, and the setting is a meeting with Henry Kissinger in late 1968 when he was advising him about the Vietnam War. The idea of Kissinger seeking out Ellsberg for advice on Vietnam initially seems a bit unlikely, but in 1968 Ellsberg was a highly respected analyst on the war who had worked for both the Pentagon and Rand, and Kissinger was just entering the government for the first time. Here's what Ellsberg told him. Enjoy: "Henry, there's something I would like to tell you, for what it's worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You've been a consultant for a long time, and you've dealt a great deal with top secret information. 

Albert Pike - on Lucifer ( Mazzini letter )

Backward Causation

Backward Causation

First published Mon Aug 27, 2001; substantive revision Tue Feb 16, 2010

 

william james

https://youtu.be/ba7Ahpf1cqY?t=1108

Emersonian idea , the universe has a devine soul of order, whitch is the same as in the soul of man ... no no no man has evil and good that can go beyond nature

Maybe we should  change the way we think of the word religion ... from an istitution created  to order our nature and belief designed to serve the aristocracy into the the sense that individualy we are of and for God.  

 

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