Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
The Dalai Lama, who has written extensively about ethics, talks about promoting secular ethics, with special emphasis on the role of scientific investigation, during his talk to a gathering of 200 Buddhist monks and nuns held at his hotel in Nagano, Japan, on June 20th, 2010.
My friend Donna Boehme is looking for feedback. She wrote to me as follows: “You have probably seen the news that the OECD Working Group on Foreign Bribery has issued a Good Practice Guidance relating to anti-bribery compliance programs. Joe Murphy and I have been participating in this process, and Joe represented SCCE in the
I am currently working on the design and delivery of values and ethics learning events and have been exploring the field for innovative and nontraditional examples. I came across the Findhorn Foundation the other day, who describe themselves as a spiritual community, ecovillage and an international centre for holistic education. What really caught my attention was that the course
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard. This video speaks for itself
In today’s Toronto Sun, Peter Worthington concludes that ethics cannot be taught.Commenting on Justice Oliphant’s recommendations that public servants (and MPs) get better ethics training,Worthington notes that” a case can be made that “ethics” are something that you either have, or you don’t have… All the training, teaching, studying, reading, or lectures in “ethics” will
On rare occasions I am introduced to something that I can only begin to understand by being in touch with my capacity to go beyond myself and touch the transcendent way of knowing .Images from the Hubble telescope do it to me all the time. So too does the work of five network scientists at
In this lengthy profile of Bernie Madoff in the New York Magazine ,we learn that he is unrepentant and in fact believes that some of his investors deserve what they got. PS Dear Readers I am still new to this blog and see it as a work in progress.I am looking for feedback and help.In
“The sustainability of a corporation depends upon the decision-making capacity of its workers, both individually and collectively, but research shows that human judgment is generally flawed and continuously pervaded by psychological biases. Managers can address these biases and create more effective processes and teams by relying on personal and organizational values in decision-making. “ Jonathan
From Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologists have long argued that we begin life as amoral animals. Not So. A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. As researchers at the Infant Cognition Center at Yale University demonstrate, you can