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Moving From Cultural Relativism to Cross-Cultural Values
William Ellis' 1825 sketch of missionaries preaching.
Where does identity come from? Are you a product of your culture, or are you an independent moral agent? There is a constant tension in the world between the concept of “culture” and the concept of “universal human rights.” How can both be respected when they conflict? The authors of a forthcoming paper in the journal Neuroquantology argue that...
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Posted by on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 10:00am

Relating Existentialism to Dharma to Help Traumatic Stress
If we accept an existential perspective, we probably also accept the premise that reality is subjective--that everything we perceive comes through the lenses of our experiences and senses, rather than as some ideal Platonic forms.   In a new essay now available to the New Existentialists' library, Daniel B. Pitchford and Jeannine A. Davies...
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Posted by on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 10:00am

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Death is the great certainty of life -- and a subject we almost never talk about.  How we live in its shadow, and the choices we make about the best way to live a life where time is the only non-renewable resource, is a key element of existential thought.

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