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Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Lots of nuggets in here including a really interesting thought on how tiny is the proportion of ‘big cheaters’…

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the truth about dishonesty…

November 7, 2012

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The following is taken from the graduation speech of Michael Lewis at Princeton in 2012. In it, he discusses an experiment that explores the relationship between power and morality. “…a pair of researchers in the Cal psychology department staged an experiment. They began by grabbing students, as…

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social power and morality

August 19, 2012

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Suppose you have a moral disagreement with someone, for example, a disagreement about whether it is okay to live in a society where the amount of money you are born with is the primary determinant of how wealthy you will end up. In pursuing this…

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morality is culturally conditioned

April 23, 2012

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Moral relativism is an ethical theory that holds the view that there are no objective ethical truths and that moral facts are dependent to a particular individual, group, or society. This view says that a moral fact for one culture or society may be viewed…

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The Nature of Moral Absolutism

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