January 2010

The Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Self-mastery

I hesitantly try to summarize what I find already amazingly condensed and succinct. But at the risk of breaking the virtue of simplicity, here are the Twelve Virtues of Rationality. But don’t stop at this summary, read the full article yourself (it isn’t long!) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I highly recommend it. The Twelve Virtues are: […]

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Various forms of atheism

Self-awareness

The word atheist has different meanings in different contexts, so we need to  it if we want to use the word in productive discussion. Greg Epstein in his book good without God quotes an excellent paragraph from Sherwin Wine, who separates atheism into several distinct intellectual categories, as follows: “ontological” atheism (the most popular kind) is a firm denial of any creator […]

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