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Can You Name This Virtue?
When my children were small, I read them stories from William Bennett’s Book of Virtues. Its folk tales and legends were organized under chapters called Self-Discipline, Compassion, Responsibility,...
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Appropriate to Evidence and Cost
You may have seen this video of chimpanzees who were raised in a research lab, and released to the outdoors for the first time in their lives. Sometimes I feel like those chimpanzees. I blink and...
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Shaphat
The Hebrew Letter Shin So many things don’t bother me anymore — things that I used to consider grave sins — that someone recently asked me, “Don’t you care about anything?” I considered my response for...
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Virtue, Gemstones and Art
I used to read to my children from William Bennett’s Book of Virtues. The chapters are sequenced like gemstones on a bracelet: self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage,...
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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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Unusual Superpowers
I recently read an article in The Guardian about people who have a superpower I had never heard of. They are “empaths” — people who are “capable of feeling someone else’s feeling in their own body.”...
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