Word: moral
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...accustomed to thinking of the human mind as an intricate machine. He has long been fascinated with evolutionary psychology--a field that views the brain as a mechanism built by the genes and shaped by natural selection--and has written extensively about it, both in his 1994 book, The Moral Animal, and in a TIME cover story last August, "Twentieth Century Blues." In this week's cover story, contributor Wright examines the philosophical questions raised by "artificial intelligences" such as Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer that nearly defeated the human world champion, Garry Kasparov. In addition, Kasparov writes about...
...feel a real kinship for." He adds, "There are only so many catastrophes you can do before they start to look the same." In case you can't guess, he wants to try acting. In Copland, he'll play a partly deaf cop who's caught in a moral dilemma. "It's a role that makes me nervous, and the fear makes me excited," says Stallone. No explosions in Copland, although guns will be fired. (You were expecting Swan Lake...
...superimposed upon them a knowledge of what was to come, then a mere gun-amuck mind or a squalor of pedophiliac-itch-gone-violent seemed an inadequate, trivializing explanation--almost sacrilegious in its asymmetry. Almost everyone, therefore, looked toward that last unopened door at the end of the moral corridor, the one with the word Evil...
WHILE THE VIRTUEmeisters of the right enjoin us to post the Ten Commandments in our kitchen and shun the unchaste among our neighbors, the Clintons have been quietly scrambling to come up with a more congenial source of moral guidance. First there was Hillary's philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left...
Carter tries to extricate himself from the swamps of moral relativism by postulating that some ideas are, after all, just plain evil, and as examples of such genuine, integrity-destroying evil, he offers racism and genocide. Thus the Nazi operative couldn't be a man of integrity, no matter how much "discerning" he engages in, because genocide is just, well, over the top. But evil, in Integrity, seems a pretty makeshift deus ex machina. If, for example, racism is such a self-evident no-no, then why not sexism--including any attempt to restrict women's reproductive choices...