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Journaling for Thinking and Deliberation
These prompts are designed to guide you through a structured process for evaluating your assumptions and deliberating about contentious decisions. It also helps you evaluate actions based on their impact on basic needs, autonomy, and existential needs.
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Logic, Quiet Companion
If I observe my thoughts, I notice that they often serve to fill in something that isn’t immediately present or fully within my awareness. In other words, my mind is constantly engaged in processes of prediction and explanation—anticipating what might happen next and making sense of what I observe. For example, when I see the sky is grey,…
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Intentional Communication
In Harmonizing Ethics, I suggested that a holistic approach to ethics considers effectiveness, mutual respect and emotional resonance. One interesting direction for applying this framework is to consider what it might look like to communicate with a sensitivity for such ethical considerations. In this post, we will look at how effectiveness translates into an emphasis…
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Watch, Feel, Prove
This post will explore how sensory observation, reason, and intuition each contribute to our understanding of the world, their interrelationships, and how we might navigate their tensions to form a more complete way to insights about the world.
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Harmonizing Ethics
In this post we will explore three major categories of values reflecting the embodied, rational and emotionally attuned nature of what it means to be human and the overarching value of alignment that encompasses them all.
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Maturing, Still
The work of Jean Piaget has been popularized enough today that many people are familiar with the idea of child development, where children move through successive cognitive stages of maturity. However, what is less known is that under the right circumstances cognitive development continues in the lifespan beyond adolescence and into the farther reaches of…
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Natural Wealth
In this post, we will explore how one might go beyond the limitations of unnatural wealth-getting to a more holistic conception of wealth and its role in wellbeing and further, what natural wealth-getting might look like.
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What’s Reality Like?
Should we consider reality a collection of particles, waves, objects, or something more elusive, like experiences, sensations, and ideas? Varying approaches have tried to pin down the answer, from materialist notions that everything is matter, to spiritual conceptions of a universal consciousness from which everything comes about. Each approach contributes something unique, yet for the…
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A Politics for Everyone
Mutual self-other consideration serves as a guiding principle for respectful, ethical deliberation. This idea can also be applied to our thinking about the relationships between political entities, such as the state and civil society or firms and workers. Historically, conceptions of the universal political subject usually privileged one side over the other, assuming that power…
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Sustainable Generosity
Challenges like poverty, climate crises, global health disparities, and rising inequalities shape our contemporary international landscape. Faced with these realities, many of us ask: how can we contribute in a meaningful way that truly makes a difference? In this pursuit, movements like the Effective Altruism (EA) and others have emerged as a response, offering a path that…
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