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A Templeton Conversation: Does moral action depend on reasoning?

A Templeton Conversation: Does moral action depend on reasoning? Read Robert George’s Response (found at the bottom).

"We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change" by Al Gore

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?pagewanted=1 Op-Ed in The New York Times contributed by former VP Al Gore. It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.  … But what a burden […]

"The Intellectual and Moral Character of the People"

I want to offer two excerpts that I have come across as we move from 2009 to 2010, that really strike me and have stuck with me as I reflect on the state of our nation/ governement. “Only the combination of the intemperateness of lustfulness with the lazy inertia incapable of generating anger is the […]

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