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Indeed, he repeatedly stated that the “social bases of self-respect” were the most important primary goods, since “without [self-respect] nothing may seem worth doing.”
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Neuroticism and Agreeableness.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Your micro-motives comprise part of your core identity
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Deontology and utilitarianism are “one-receptor” moralities that are likely to appeal most strongly to people who are high on systemizing and low on empathizing.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Regardless of how exactly one generates theories of other people's minds, it's clear that these theories profoundly affect moral decisions. Look, for example, at the ultimatum game, a staple of experimental economics. The rules of the game are simple, if a little bit unfair: an experimenter pairs two people together, and hands one of them ten dolla
... See moreJonah Lehrer • How We Decide
Degrees of guilt can still be judged by reference to the facts of a case: the
Sam Harris • Free Will
Values, ethics, fears, and goals are often significant factors in decision-making.