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Living Generously: The Features Of Effective Altruism

Living Generously: The Features Of Effective Altruism

  • Many effective altruists think that our primary moral obligation is to reduce suffering and promote happiness and that we can measure the moral worth of our decisions based on how effective those decisions are at improving net happiness.
  • Earn to give:  Earn as much as you can. Then dedicate as much of your money as possible to the most effective causes for reducing suffering and promoting happiness.
  • Effective altruists think we should decide who to help and how by using data about which interventions are most effective at promoting happiness and reducing suffering.

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The Story Is The Reality

The Story Is The Reality

The stories we tell ourselves shape our lives, the truth of these stories decide to what extent we live in reality.

Storytelling is a skill that requires careful attention to the details of life. It requires developing a “morally thick” vocabulary that brings out the nuance in our intention...

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The Trolley Problem

The Trolley Problem

A thought experiment to understand moral psychology:

A trolley is careening out of control down some tracks, on a heading to strike and kill five workers. Do you pull the lever to redirect the train which kills only one person? If it is okay to pull the lever, would it also be okay to push ...

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What The Trolley Example Proves

What The Trolley Example Proves

The surprising discovery is that subjects do have different reactions to these variations. The more “person-to-person” the trolley problem is, the more reluctant someone was to act. So people are more likely to pull a lever to change the tracks, much less likely to push another person to their de...

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Contemplation is Pointless, And That Is The Point

Contemplation is Pointless, And That Is The Point

Whereas goal-directed activities get their value from culminating in an achievement—crossing the finish line makes the painful marathon worth running—goalless activities have value apart from how they end.

Goalless activities are valuable just because you’re doing them, and they continue to...

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The Cause And Effect Of Goodness

The Cause And Effect Of Goodness

Cultivating the right intentions leads moral improvement, moral improvement leads to human flourishing.

Sometimes we make horrible decisions that, luckily, don’t result in disaster. Sometimes we try to do heroic, loving, or generous deeds but don’t make any difference in the world. Moral im...

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Desire The Truth

Desire The Truth

Think about walking from a very dark room into a brightly lit one. You don’t immediately see more—you probably see less. Your pupils have to contract. Your brain has to process very different information. This everyday visual experience is a guide to the more serious difficulty we face when we tr...

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SOCRATES

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation and honours as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth or the best possible state of your soul?

SOCRATES

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Looking Through A Moral Compass

Looking Through A Moral Compass

Sometimes we make horrible decisions that, luckily, don’t result in disaster. Sometimes we try to do heroic, loving, or generous deeds but don’t make any difference in the world. Moral improvement is a matter of improving your intentions, developing your character, and better understanding why yo...

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The Ultimate Good: Flourishing

The Ultimate Good: Flourishing

The “ultimate good” for human beings will involve satisfying our animal needs while also building up virtuous traits of character, over time and in a rational way.

Contemporary philosophers name this state as “flourishing”—the complete state of being a well-developed, accomplished, and happ...

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The Only Thing That Matters

The Only Thing That Matters

Asking yourself the right questions, followed by deep contemplation is one way to nurture your virtues.

The key to weathering any hardship or difficulty is to continually remind ourselves that what matters is not what happens to us but how we respond to it. Can you respond with kindness to ...

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Contemplation

Contemplation

 Contemplation is continuous—it doesn’t have a clear beginning or end. If you are absorbed in a thought or a moment, there is no definite point when you have to turn away.

And contemplation is leisurely—there is no set pace you should strive to do it at and no such thing as being an “effici...

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ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE

Principles that are mistakenly high and strict are a trap; they may easily lead in the end directly or indirectly to the justification of monstrous things

ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE

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Effective Altruism

Effective Altruism

Effective altruism is a philosophical movement dedicated to giving people extremely specific advice about how money should factor into living an ethical life.

The effective altruism movement is an ethical system guided by three connected assumptions about the role that money plays in the mo...

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ARISTOTLE

Emotions and pleasure may be felt both too much and too little, and in both cases not well; but to feel them at the right times, with reference to the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive, and in the right way, is what is both intermediate and...

ARISTOTLE

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Virtue Ethics

Virtue Ethics

Virtue ethicists are sometimes accused of advocating a self-centred morality, one that overemphasizes how your spending and giving affect you, the giver, and your pursuit of eudaimonia. Shouldn’t morality be about other people—about selflessness?

But the effective altruists are selfless in...

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The Three Contemplations Of Marcus Aurelius

The Three Contemplations Of Marcus Aurelius

  • The Stoic General gives himself advice on virtue and reflects on what he has discovered about the good life in his own adventures.
  • He reflects on nature, change, death—not just for himself but for everything in the universe. When he has a question about reality, he writes that down a...

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#6 THOUGHT: The Sins Of Our Minds

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