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• Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
• Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you…
• But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are…
• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking…
• If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect…
• The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name…
• Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
• The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one…
• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail…
• Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
• Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
• Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really…

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