Stop, think, chew
Rather than looking for secular surrogates, we should look for other ways to cultivate the virtues that ritual promotes. Such practices need to be at least as embedded in our daily routines as prayers are for believers.
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Business Matters
BUSINESS MATTERS – BBC WORLD SERVICE. I was on Friday’s programme talking about the woman who sued the Ritz for her gambling losses with Roger Hearing.
ReadWhat happens when empathy isn’t enough?
Although empathy gets morality going, it is not where it ends. Once it’s up and running, we use our heads to work out the fairest ways of balancing the needs of all. Empathy is thus the base camp of ethics, whose peaks lie elsewhere.
ReadShould we grow old disgracefully?
Since a lot of ethics concerns our responsibilities, and these do not remain constant throughout life, some ethical standards must surely differ depending on the stage of life.
ReadEbooks v paper
Because it is obvious that reading is important, it can easily seem self-evident what reading is. Perhaps the real contribution of ereaders will be to make us re-examine that assumption.
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