Word: guilts
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Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker, Columbia Professor of Buddhism Robert A.F. Thurman ’62, and Harvard Professor of Literature William Mills Todd III spoke in front of a packed Tsai auditorium audience of undergraduates and members of the Cambridge community about views of guilt in their respective disciplines...
...Anyone who is either Jewish or Catholic has a feeling that guilt is essential to life,” said Pinker, joking that the guiltiest countries in the world should be Ireland, Italy, and Israel...
Pinker’s speech focused on guilt from an evolutionary and game-theory perspective...
...Undergraduate Committee of the Harvard Humanities Center organized the event after Liz C. Goodwin ’08, who is also a former Crimson news executive, developed the idea of examining guilt from a variety of academic disciplines last year...
While Pinker addressed the psychology behind guilt, Thurman—the first American ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist Monk—discussed the concept of immortal guilt in the Buddhist belief of reincarnation...