Climate Change is a Social Justice Issue
Our species is threatened. How will we respond?Throughout his life, Socrates famously asked six questions: (1) What is justice? (2) What is good? (3) What is piety? (4) What is courage? (5) What is...
View ArticleIf Good is Common Good, We are Failing
Our actions are poorly matched to pursuit of the common good.As I wrote in my latest essay for The Good Men Project, Socrates famously and persistently asked six questions: (1) What is justice? (2)...
View ArticleQuestioning Culture: When Personal Happiness Brings Suffering to Others
Do our current lifestyles violate the Socratic notion of Good?If happiness is a goal, and if that happiness extends beyond the mere alleviation of suffering, how to we evaluate happiness? If our own...
View ArticleProtecting the Common Good
Dr. Guy McPherson believes that if humanity is measured in its ability to protect the common good, we’re failing.Who are your friends? What is required to fulfill the responsibility of friendship?...
View ArticleHow an Atheist Learned to Think About Spirituality
Lisa Hickey finds something she can believe in. And it has everything to do with “good” and much to do with “men”. I was raised a Catholic, a “good” Catholic – baptized, communioned, confirmed,...
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