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The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age
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Though humanism is the moral code that people will converge upon when they are rational, culturally diverse, and need to get along, it is by no means a vapid or saccharine lowest common denominator. The idea that morality consists in the maximization of human flourishing clashes with two perennially seductive alternatives. The first is theistic
... See moreSteven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
His theory of political liberalism explores the legitimate use of political power in a democracy, and envisions how civic unity might endure despite the diversity of worldviews that free institutions allow.
John Rawls (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Chris Boehm, an anthropologist at the University of Southern California, developed a broadly accepted explanation for the subsequent flattening of hierarchies in human society. He coined the somewhat clunky term reverse dominance hierarchy for the phenomenon, but the idea is simple.
Brian Klaas • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Philosophy
Thomas Jockin • 5 cards
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future (Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies)
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