What Is Forgiveness?
After I wrote the post It’s OK If You Can’t Forgive, I came across this video of Oprah and TD Jakes. They promote a common definition of forgiveness, which is to let go of your anger toward an...
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It’s OK If You Can’t Forgive
When ten Amish girls were shot in their one-room school in 2006, the story of their murder was quickly supplanted by the story of their families forgiving the murderer. The families’ ability to...
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What If Life Is Not the Test You Think It Is?
When I was in elementary school, my teacher announced, “Kids, I have a test to give you today. It will test your ability to folow directions. When I pass it out in a moment, read the whole thing and...
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A Fact-Checker’s Truth-Loving Test
Do you consider yourself a fact-checker and a lover of the truth? That’s admirable but I learned recently how easy it is to think that once we have checked the facts, we’re ready to speak. The...
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Nietzche’s Truth-Loving Test
In this blog, I have kept a running list of tests for telling whether you love the truth, including: Plato’s Truth-Loving TestC.S. Lewis’s Truth-Loving TestVoltaire’s Truth-Loving TestA Chess Player’s...
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Last month, a commenter dropped this interesting nugget: God’s existence implies accountability’s existence… More broadly, our discussion was about whether morality can be grounded in a non-theistic...
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The Morality of the Invisible Hand
There is a story that a high-level Russian official visited America during the Reagan presidency and was shown the abundance of goods in American stores. He was astonished at the bountiful display and...
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How to Assess a Website’s Trustworthiness – Part 5
I wrote the first four parts of this series a year ago, but something I recently read in How to Think brought the subject to mind again so here is another way to separate the internet’s wheat from its...
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Like-Minded vs Like-Hearted
If you want to find the truth, then the most dangerous place for you to be is in a group that already agrees with you. This is particularly true if membership in that group is based on shared thinking,...
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Thinking with Other People
What hope could there be for someone who is such a devoted member of the infamous Westborough Baptist Church (“God Hates Fags”) that she tweets missives such as this one: Thank God for AIDS! You won’t...
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When You’re Right for Good Reason, But Still Wrong
Mary enters the house and looks into the living room. A familiar appearance greets her from her husband’s chair. She thinks, “My husband is sitting in the living room,” and then walks into the den. But...
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The Welcome Erosion of Natural Law
Section 377 of India’s Constitution was in the news this week. It states, “Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with...
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What People Are Really Searching For
Isn’t it obvious that the more consequential an opinion is, the more careful we should be about forming it? Yet one of the mysteries of human behavior is that we often do the opposite. Consider two...
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How the Pre-Scientific Mind Can Fall into Dogmatism
There is snow at the North Pole. Where there is snow, bears are white. What color are bears at the North Pole? You probably knew how to navigate that logic before you were 10 years old. However, when...
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What Makes a Good Explanation?
Today, we all know that the Moon’s gravity causes the tides, but what did people think before Sir Isaac Newton discovered that gravity is a universal force? I recently heard Jonathan White interviewed...
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An Upcoming Ethical Dilemma for Parents
You are standing at a fork in a trolley track, your hand on the lever that can cause the trolley to go one direction or the other. A trolley is coming toward you. If you do not pull the lever, it will...
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Why You Don’t Have To Check Every Nutty Claim
A friend once earnestly invited me to his very fundamentalist church. I was a Christian at the time but, according to his church, I was not the right kind of Christian and was destined for hell. He...
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Must Believe, May Believe, and Make Believe
How is it possible that after more than two months of continuous lies 77% of Republicans believe President Trump is an honest man? Just as perplexing is the contrast with Democrats. Living in the same...
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President Trump Meets Plato
If there is a silver lining in the current political cloud of scandal, chaos, and lies, it is that the more responsible American media outlets are making unprecedented efforts to educate the American...
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A Rich Ecosystem of Virtues
Sean Carroll’s phrase, “a rich ecosystem of virtues and lives well lived,” which I mentioned two posts ago, has been in my head lately and I’d like to share more of what he had to say on the subject....
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