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By choosing a unique and personal fixed point, in Mill’s view, you are not only raising the odds of finding a path worth staying on, but you are also serving an important role in pushing culture forward.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
As evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson states, “No serious scholar would think that human behavior is controlled the way animal instinct is, without the intervention of culture.”
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Sheon Han • Rat Traps
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 mor
... See moreSteven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
Yale professor Lauri Santos’s course “Psychology and the Good Life,”
Scott Galloway • Post Corona
Again and again, we have told ourselves that there is a top–down description of the world, and a top–down prescription by which we should live.
Matt Ridley • The Evolution of Everything
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