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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably... →
Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants... →
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud... →
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has... →
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of... →
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in... →
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige... →
The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can... →