FiveThirtyEight The Moral Foundations of Occupy Wall Street From a rational perspective, joining a protest rally is like voting—a complete waste of time. The odds that your voice or your protest sign will make a difference are no better than the odds that your vote will change an election. And yet, people do join protests and people do vote. They do these things not to advance their rational self-interest, but to express moral passions and moral identities. In Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, home base of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a noisy, festive crowd of hundreds was doing just that when I stopped by on October 8. This theory, which is based on ideas from the anthropologist Richard Shweder, outlines six clusters of moral concerns—care/harm, fairness/cheating, liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation—upon which, we argue, all political cultures and movements base their moral appeals. So what’s the mix of moral foundations at Occupy Wall Street (OWS)? Fairness/cheating
Pluto's Journal | growing up on the edge of it all What Tea Partiers Really Want | By Jonathan Haidt Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi | BODHI MONASTERY Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, he obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College (1966) and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School (1972). Drawn to Buddhism in his early 20s, after completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late Ven. Ananda Maitreya, the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk of recent times. He was appointed editor of the Buddhist Publication Society (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988. In May 2000 he gave the keynote address at the United Nations on its first official celebration of Vesak (the day of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing away).
Which of the 5 Types of Political Moralizer are You? A lot of factors affect how we evaluate politicians. The major factor is party identification. Primarily, Democrats vote for Democrats, and Republicans vote for Republicans. While we want to think people carefully consider each candidate and their issue positions, many people are so busy living their lives – with work and school, kids and family, friends and neighbors – they just don’t want to spend their free time thinking about complex government policies and power hungry politicians. But people do often use other factors in addition to partisanship (including unexpected things like height, see "Do We Reallly Prefer Taller Leaders?" How do you evaluate politicians in terms of morality? Before you read any further, click on the following link to complete the anonymous online quiz to find out. … Welcome Back! According to Jonathan Haidt and colleagues, there are five moral foundations for human behavior. The 5 Types of Political Moralizers How do you compare? Surprising…
Philosophical Disquisitions Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conversatives Take the Moral Foundations Questionnaire that Haidt and his colleagues have posted at Find a way to anonymously aggregate and analyze the results with your classmates. Together, discuss the following: Do you think that the survey questions lead to a thorough and accurate assessment of an individual’s morality? When they developed their Moral Foundations Theory, Haidt and his colleagues initially identified five moral foundations. Jonathan Haidt: Moral Foundations Theory The Utne Reader: Liberals aren’t un-American. Psychology Today:Jonathan Haidt’s Moral-Political Psychology (01/01/2012) The Chronicle of Higher Education: Jonathan Haidt decodes the tribal psychology of politics (01/29/2012)
Stoa del Sol The Stoa of the ancient Greco-Roman world was a teaching forum for the philosophical precepts of Stoicism. First expounded upon by Zeno of Citium (c. 366-264 b.c.e.), Stoicism was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization. Its scope included a cosmology, logic, and ethics. And its impact has reached down through the centuries--early Greek Stoicism, later Roman Stoicism, Stoic influence in Christian thought, Stoic thought found in the humanism of the Renaissance, and beyond this in the pantheistic philosophy of Spinoza. The Stoa del Sol is a contemporary forum for essays that reflect some of the historical principles of Stoicism in relation to a New Cosmology and New Spiritual Paradigm prompted by modern science and systems theories. Stoicism is a doctrine that declares that all existence is confined within the limits of the sensible universe. The Stoics considered that human nature was the universal on a small scale--a microcosm!
Port Magazine - the magazine for men Flaneur Magazine | Blog »Rome is so boring, Rome is so dry.« Architectural performance group LAC, ATI and Stalker believe the answer to Rome’s future is the transformation of the ancient ruin Largo Argentina (located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II) into a lake. Let the Romans swim! Let Romans touch their history instead of viewing it from afar! After several brainstorming sessions (scuba diving gear, crabs and safety floats being mentioned) Flaneur and the performers/architects met by the ruin armed with flyers, posters, empty vessels for collecting water and a model of the ruin-turned-lake including live gold fish. Through skills of persuasion we got passer-byers to sign petitions noting down how much water they are willing to donate, then as a symbolic start to the controversial transformation every petitioner had to take water from a fountain and pour it into the ruin. The performance will be featured in Issue 04 and a video will be online shortly.
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