The End of Philosophy ???

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	The End of Philosophy ???

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/54fc8e23-58f9-45af-95b9-69a827929997/8CF237E2-E867-4FCD-9331-5DB8E071845B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#"><P> Socrates talked. The assumption behind his approach to philosophy, and the approaches of millions of people since, is that moral thinking is mostly a matter of reason and deliberation: Think through moral problems. Find a just principle. Apply it. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">
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</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#"><DIV class="byline">By <A title="More Articles by David Brooks" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html?inline=nyt-per" mashlogic-removed-href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html?inline=nyt-per" mashlogic-unlinked-text="DAVID BROOKS"><MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="DAVID BROOKS" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">DAVID BROOKS</MASHLOGIC></A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#"><P> One problem with this kind of approach to morality, as <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="Michael Gazzaniga" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">Michael Gazzaniga</MASHLOGIC> writes in his 2008 book, “Human,” is that “it has been hard to find any correlation between moral reasoning and <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA c43071e2c4a1aff2f5a267e6cbf74299 MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="proactive" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-recent-headlines mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Recent Headlines, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">proactive</MASHLOGIC> moral behavior, such as helping other people. In fact, in most studies, none has been found.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07Brooks.html#"><P> Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are linked and basically simultaneous.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8CF237E2-E867-4FCD-9331-5DB8E071845B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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