Posts tagged Ethics
Charity And The Art Of Seeing The Best In One Another
Charity And The Art Of Seeing The Best In One Another

(ANALYSIS) Understanding others requires charitable interpretation: Seeing them as protagonists doing their best within imperfect circumstances. While we can misjudge by overlooking faults or inventing virtues, it is often worse to dismiss others outright. Balancing agency and generosity fosters humility, productive disagreement and cooperation across personal, cultural and political divides.

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Analysis, News, Religion, Society, SolutionsMark SchroederMark Schroeder, analysis, religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Polarization, Civil Discourse, Empathy, Charity (Interpretation), Principle of Charity, Agency, Moral Psychology, Social Media, Conflict Resolution, Critical Thinking, Understanding Across Differences, Dialogue, Cultural Differences, Interpretation, Intellectual Humility, Human Behavior, Public Debate, society, solutions, Lent, Lent 2026, Secondary feature Comment
Making AI Dead Facsimiles Raises Ethical Quandaries
Making AI Dead Facsimiles Raises Ethical Quandaries

The use of artificial intelligence to “reanimate” the dead for a variety of purposes is quickly gaining traction. Over the past few years, we’ve been studying the moral implications of AI at the Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and we find these AI reanimations to be morally problematic.

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Analysis, Religion, Society, Technology, NewsNir Eisikovits and Daniel J. FeldmanThe Conversation, Nir Eisikovits, Daniel J. Feldman, AI, Death, Reanimation, Ethics, artificial intelligence, news, Secondary feature, religion, analysis, society, tech, technologyComment
Religion Shapes Morals Even For Those Who Are Not Religious
Religion Shapes Morals Even For Those Who Are Not Religious

In a 2019 survey, 44% of Americans – along with 45% of people across 34 nations – said that belief in God is necessary “to be moral and have good values.” So what happens to a person’s morality and values when they lose faith?

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NewsPhilip Schwadel and Sam HardyData journalism, dones, nones, rise of the nones, Religious nones, secularism, secularization, Ethics, morals, primary feature, Primary Feaature, Philip Schwadel, Sam Hardy, Primary Feature, Secondary Feature Comment