Word: self-control
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Football running-back Kweli P. Thompson '96, achemistry concentrator, says self-control is alsocrucial to an academic athlete...
...issue of self-control failure isfundamental to our society. It is the cause of ourmost basic problems. Why do people murder? Why dothey engage in risky...
...recent book The Moral Sense, James Q. Wilson argues convincingly that, through a combination of heredity and environment, every human is imbued with a moral sense, "an intuitive or directly felt belief about how one ought to act when one is free to act voluntarily." He cites sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty as examples of the moral sense. But Wilson also argues that trends in modern intellectual history have led people to ignore their moral sense. Harvard is a case in point...
Isolated moral failings go back to Biblical times (remember Adam and Eve's failure of self-control?), but what's new is the widespread cynicism, the lack of serious conversation among the intellectual elite about moral failings or even moral virtues. Wilson thinks the trend has something to do with the popularization and distortion of ideas from the fields of philosophy, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology. Whatever the causes, all I know for sure is that this moral indifference is very much a fact of life at Harvard...
Sachs: Hyperinflation is not an act of nature. It is a result of government policies. So it depends on what the government does. But the people who have been fighting to stop the rampant printing of money are gone. The people who are now in power have very little self-control. The central-bank governor is a huge fan of the rapid printing of money. The restraints to inflation that existed before are gone. In Ukraine, where there has been a reform-communist government like this in power for two years, the inflation rate is 100% a month...