Once again, it is time for a new edition of the Curving Normality Blog Carnival. Last edition was a bit short, but I’m happy to see that people still have send in their posts, even while I didn’t put out a ‘call for blogs’. Nevertheless, today I present a new edition with interesting posts on morality, war, the afterlife, and religion!
Posts Tagged ‘morality’
Quote: Competing Visions of the Good
The problem is that the culture war we are in at the end of the twentieth century posits opposing and, often enough, mutually exclusive visions of the public good. (p. 15)
The state’s involvement on questions of the public good is not a trifling matter. (p. 19)
Quote: On the Morality of Good
We Americans generally want to think of ourselves as good people. That, in many respects, is where the trouble begins.
Stefan Brijs – The Angel Maker
How far is a single man willing to push scientific advancement in order to better God? Victor Hoppe is willing to go far, very far. This is the central theme of the book by Stefan Brijs, soon to be translated in English. In English, it will be called `The Angel Maker’, in Dutch ‘De engelenmaker’. [...]
Influence.ME: an R package providing tools for detecting influential data in mixed models.