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The Aristocrat’s New Clothes – A Modern Day Crisis of Worth
From Aristocracy to Meritocracy Today it is difficult not notice how is much disagreement there is about nearly every social and political issue. These partisan differences, in fact, seem to run so deep that they are thought be fundamental to our psychologies. The psychologist Johnathan Haidt suggests that we may have heritable preferences among six…
The Contributions of Consolation Philosophy to the Science of Compassion
In recent years, the scientific study of compassion, has experienced a tremendous surge; a quick Google Search will disclose the plethora of books, talks, and scholarly publications on the subject matter. Most renown, the work of psychology professor Dr. Kristin Neff on self-compassion has formed the bulwark of our thinking about it in clinical practice.…
Bringing Home the Bacon: The Idols of Mind in Psychological Science
Perhaps unfortunately named, the Renaissance philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is now largely forgotten. Where he is remembered, he is often spoken about as the founder of the modern scientific method. In his major work, Novum Organon or New Tool (1620), Bacon lays out new methods that he believes to be proper to the interrogation…
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