Week 2 - September 18
September 18 - The Context of the 1st Axial Age
Readings and videos
- Viktor Frankl clip from 1972 - He says in a nutshell what humankind is all about.
- Karen Armstrong, "Let's Revive the Golden Rule" (TED Talk, 9 min)
- Jonathan Haidt and Craig Joseph, "Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues" (Daedalus Fall 2004)
- Frans de Waal on Moral Behavior in Animals (TED Talk 17 min)
Questions for September 18th class discussion