Word: moralizations
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There is no sense of closure to be gained from the play’s ending, no clear moral or lesson to be found in its entirety. Yet the lines don’t seem connected to anything else, and the questions they raise, linger in the audience’s minds long enough for them to draw their own conclusions—which can be just as powerful as any message explicitly stated onstage...
Standing on stage in Sanders Theater, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel has the capacity to perplex, provoke, frustrate and—above all—engage hundreds of undergraduate students. Over the years, his Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” has become an institution and made Sandel a larger-than-life figure...
Sandel has the ability to influence more than the theoretical outlooks of malleable students. His status as an expert in the area of sticky moral dilemmas has put him into dialogue with the past two presidencies. During the last decade, Sandel has advised both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on a range of ethical issues, from morality in politics to questions of bioethics. And while much of Sandel’s career has been defined by his work on contemporary political theory, he sees himself making bioethics a major focus in the future...
...eyes and tools of a scientist. It is an integrative approach to an age-old question. If we share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees, thinkers have long wondered, what is it about humans that makes us truly different? In particular, Hauser asks, what about humans makes them moral...
...conclusion we are reaching is that [monkeys] lack the part of the brain that allows combinational ability,” says Hauser. While humans are able to string together words and thoughts, monkeys cannot. And that linguistic ability may be the key to moral decision-making skills as well...