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The moral imperative is on the table.
As Raskolnikov’s own family arrives in town, their moral innocence stands in stark contrast to the depravity of those around them, even as their fates grow increasingly intertwined.
And in believing that his intelligence allows him to transcend moral taboos, Raskolnikov cuts himself off from his own humanity.
They have moral motivations.
And that has always impressed me, because what we want as kids is that moral intensity, to be totally given ourselves over to something and to find that level of vocation.
It deifies and ritualizes their hungers, their hard work and moral fiber.
And I think that task for us, as TEDsters, and as good people, just people, moral people, is really do the hard work necessary of not just joining hands as neighbors, but using our hands to restructure our road, a road that in this country has been rooted in things like white supremacy.
So if you take into account future generations as much as our own, every other moral imperative of philanthropic cost just becomes irrelevant.
On my wish list, at least, would be: much longer, healthier lives, greater subjective well-being, enhanced cognitive capacities, more knowledge and understanding, unlimited opportunity for personal growth beyond our current biological limits, better relationships, an unbounded potential for spiritual, moral and intellectual development.
But beyond our compassion, and far greater than compassion, is our moral imagination and our identification with each individual who lives in that world, not to think of them as a huge forest, but as individual trees.
Whispered in the dark, this question begins a tale of conspiracy, deception and moral ambiguity.
These janitors have the moral will to do right by other people.
And beyond this, they have the moral skill to figure out what "doing right" means.
"Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill."
A wise person knows how to use these moral skills in the service of the right aims.
Moral skill is chipped away by an over-reliance on rules that deprives us of the opportunity to improvise and learn from our improvisations.
And moral will is undermined by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing.
Let me just give you a few examples, first of rules and the war on moral skill.
One: Celebrate moral exemplars.
People are inspired by moral heroes.
But we learn that with sophistication comes the understanding that you can't acknowledge that you have moral heroes.
Just at this TED we heard talks from several moral heroes.
As heads of organizations, we should strive to create environments that encourage and nurture both moral skill and moral will.
Because the truth is that any work that you do that involves interaction with other people is moral work.
And any moral work depends upon practical wisdom.
And, perhaps most important, as teachers, we should strive to be the ordinary heroes, the moral exemplars, to the people we mentor.
(Mariano Sigman) We're going to present to you two moral dilemmas of the future you; things we may have to decide in a very near future.
They're gray not because they're unsure, but because they believe that the moral dilemma faces two valid, opposing arguments.
These are only the first experiments, and many more will be needed to understand why and how some people decide to negotiate their moral standings to reach an agreement.
Of course, it's much easier to agree on the height of the Eiffel Tower than on moral, political and ideological issues.
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