Early on, we identified some basic preferences, which give shape and content to an ethical system: health, satisfaction of basic needs, pleasure, longevity, happiness and fulfillment. Many people ... Read More about Flourishing
Cycle-of-Life Season
Negotiations and Other Interactions
The title of this topic comes from Paul Simon's song "Train in the Distance," wherein Simon writes "negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one and the same." The idealized version of ... Read More about Negotiations and Other Interactions
Freedom of Expression
The right to speak freely and to be heard is an indispensable part of equality. Equally indispensable is the community's receptiveness to ideas: its willingness to listen and hear. This is a daunting ... Read More about Freedom of Expression
Temperance – Balance – Symmetry – Proportion
Not just in politics but in life, proportion is an important value, which is related to judgment. Opposites include extremism. ... Read More about Temperance – Balance – Symmetry – Proportion
Political Equality
People have always schemed to gain political advantage over others. In the long age of kings, political equality was not even discussed but since democracy began to emerge in the late eighteenth ... Read More about Political Equality
Equal Rights and Protection of Law
. . . in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes ... Read More about Equal Rights and Protection of Law
Equal Opportunity – Opportunity In Fact – Economic Justice
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. (Also stated as: “Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness, are to me as a floating cloud.”) [Confucius, The Analects, Section 2, ... Read More about Equal Opportunity – Opportunity In Fact – Economic Justice
Equality
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. . . . Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. [Fyodor Dostoevsky, ... Read More about Equality
Strength
This page focuses on political strength, or strength in numbers fortified by unity. Among the most moving examples of this was the march on Washington in August of 1963, when Martin Luther King ... Read More about Strength