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Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER" |
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PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the h
Date: 2013-01-10 03:24:12
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Pink Panther Teaches Nonduality |
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A while back, I was sitting in a waiting room listening to an Alan Watts lecture on my iPod. Bored, I glanced up at the TV screen fixed to the wall above me. It was showing the classic Pink Panther episode "The Pink Phink". At that moment, something amazing happened; Watts' words became perfectly ju...
Date: 2013-01-05 17:36:36
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RSA Animate: The Truth About Dishonesty |
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Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world's leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment.
Date: 2012-11-12 01:11:16
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Zimbardo shows how most evil comes from hierarchy |
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Stanford Prison Experiment. This is an excerpt of The Evilness of Power www.archive.org a documentary-montage I did in 2008 examining the effects of hierarchy on individuals, society and the world at large.
Date: 2012-08-26 21:55:00
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Experimental Philosophy |
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To learn more about experimental philosophy, see http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jk762/ExperimentalPhilosophy.html
Date: 2012-06-15 02:14:36
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Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code |
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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.
Date: 2012-05-02 03:32:12
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Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule |
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, Karen Armstrong looks at religion's role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can drive the world's faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule.
Date: 2012-04-09 02:05:59
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Andre Dubus III: A History of Violence |
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There are circumstances where violence is unavoidable, says "Townie" author Andre Dubus III, but it always takes a heavy spiritual toll.
Date: 2012-04-08 14:08:33
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Alan Watts ☮ The Way of Waking Up |
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"So then, here's the drama. My metaphysics, let me be perfectly frank with you, are that there is the central Self, you could call it God you could call it anything you like. And its all of us. Its playing all the parts of all beings whatsoever everywhere and anywhere.
And its playing the game o...
Date: 2011-11-25 03:27:50
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Alan Watts - Who Are You? |
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Philosopher Alan Watts thoughts on the myth of split consciousness (our bad side/ good side)...
Date: 2011-08-12 12:18:37
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Alan Watts - God Complex |
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Alan Watts speaks on state of human consciousness and connections to western science and religion...
Date: 2011-08-07 00:16:04
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The Riddle of Epicurus |
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Is God Omnipotent and Omnibenevolent? Either God wants to abolish evil (natural disasters, diseases, suffering, famine etc), and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolis...
Date: 2011-07-21 12:21:18
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Stanford Prison Experiment (Documentary) |
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A study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from August 14th to 20th[1], 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. It was funded by a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research[2] ...
Date: 2011-07-15 04:59:18
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