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How should people who don't follow the "golden rule" be treated?

I think the value and effectiveness of the golden rule as guide to ethical conduct is self-evident, so far as the individual is receiving equivalent treatment in return among peers. Yet, I have observ …
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Is patriotism ethical? [duplicate]

In the 24th lecture of Steven Smith's Political Philosophy class at Yale available on ItunesU, he says that Patriotism is unethical because it implies "a blind deference to tradition" and sums it up i …
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Where did Machiavelli say that "the ends justify the means"?

I have read The Prince, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War. In none of these books did I find the quote oft-attributed to Machiavelli that “the ends justify the means”. Did he say it? If so, where? …
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Consolation for failure or fear of failure?

Miyamoto Musashi's book of five rings, D.T Suzuki's: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, and Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure are all excellent work, and there are many more excellent japanese works but the …
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Introduction to understanding behaviour

I would recommend b.f skinners behaviorism and Freud's psychoanalysis theories because they are pioneering and comprehensive attempts at psychological theories of everything.
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