Sublime

On the one hand this convergent tendency, and the remarkable degree of agreement that is to be found on the higher levels, appears to me the strongest argument from experience that morality is absolute and not merely relative and that religious faith is not a delusion.

The great worry, of course, is that an honest discussion of the underlying causes of human behavior appears to leave no room for moral responsibility.

John Rawls laid out much philosophical theory dedicated to the conditions under which a socially just society might be organized. In this, he set out a universalist thought experiment in which a socially just society would be one in which an individual given a choice would be equally happy to be born into any social milieu or identity group.

Bell was an open advocate of historical revisionism and is best known for his “interest convergence” thesis, described in his 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law.9 This thesis holds that whites have allowed rights to blacks only when it was in their interest to do so—a dismal view that denies the possibility that any moral progress had been m

personal moral dilemma,

am also an expert in the psychology of bias.

In The Bottom Line, I presented the dilemma of two boxes, only one of which contains a diamond, with various signs and portents as evidence. I dichotomized the curious inquirer and the clever arguer. The curious inquirer writes down all the signs and portents, and processes them, and finally writes down “Therefore, I estimate an 85% probability tha

Understanding implicit bias requires taking a more nuanced approach to the individuals we are easily tempted to label as “racist” or “not racist.”