Category: ethics

• One Voice Can Make a Difference

  History has shown that just one respected voice calling for calm or reason among a lynch mob; or just one person of strong conscience on a jury; or just one journalist willing to mine for the truth, has turned the tide. If just one person can have so much impact, how do we each become…

  David L. Smith

  June 2, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, ethics, evolution, Perception, Political, society, truth, Values, virtue

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• Higher Human Characteristics

  Human society can no longer afford behavior that is selfish, arrogant or separative. The time has come to mobilize every major discipline in human affairs— psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, economy, art, writing, drama, science and technology, business and industry and all that our electronic age is able to offer—for an all-out effort to inquire into…

  David L. Smith

  May 26, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, ethics, evolution, Humanity, Love, Perception, Political, Science, society, Spiritual, Technology, Transformation, Values, virtue

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• Optimism for the Future

  When both the ‘study of the household’ (Ecology) and the ‘management of the household’ (Economics) can be merged, and when Ethics can be extended to include the environment as well as human values, then we can indeed be optimistic about the future of humankind. Eugene Odum, Biologist, father of modern ecologyAuthor, Basic Ecology: Fundamentals of…

  David L. Smith

  May 22, 2023

  Ecology, Economics, ethics, Humanity, society, Values

  building, construction, Ecology, household, Humanity, management, mankind, optimistic, Values