Posts Tagged: Ethics
What it Means to Be ‘Good’
When I was a kid, I used to wonder why it was that some children in my circles seemed naturally better and sweeter than others...
We Must Praise People, Not Just God
The Sages understood tsara’at -- the theme of this week’s parsha -- not as an illness, but as a miraculous public exposure of the sin of lashon hara (speaking badly about others). Judaism...
What Is Good?
The core question of any discussion about ethics is: What is “good”? If we humans think we ought to have some standards of behavior and...
Aaron Swartz and “Hactivision”
When did it happen? When did technology become knowledge? When did code become wisdom? When did Greek gods become geek gods? When did the new...
Why Do We Act the Way We Do?
Philosophers are divided over the ethical question of why humans behave the way they do. There are and have been different theories, "labels" such as...
A Plea to Atheists: Pedophilia Is Next On the Slippery Slope; Let Us Turn Back Before It Is Too Late
It is axiomatic that in the world of the atheist there is neither morality nor immorality, only amorality. This is often misunderstood to mean that...
