Cultural Chaos Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/cultural-chaos/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:59:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Cultural Chaos Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/cultural-chaos/ 32 32 Curiosity’s Role in Saving America https://mind-at-work.com/curiositys-role-in-saving-america/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:56:43 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5439 In a recent essay titled "Our Urgent Need to Examine Ideas" I noted that in this age of constant, rapid, and unsolicited information, many ideas slip into our minds unexamined. Yet we tend to defend those uninvited ideas as conscientiously as we do ones we have produced through careful thought. I explained that there is [...]

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]]> The Whatever School of Morality https://mind-at-work.com/the-whatever-school-of-morality/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:55:11 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5022 One of the most fundamental and ancient moral precepts is Do Good and Avoid Evil. It was expressed (in different words) in the Hippocratic Oath between the fifth and third centuries before Christ. More than a millennium later, St. Thomas Aquinas and others considered it a key ethical precept, as have most philosophers since then. [...]

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