“Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.“
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
From my bookshelf:
People of the Lie – by M. Scott Peck
Ethics – by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The True Believer – by Eric Hoffer
Ethics For the New Millennium – by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding our Darker Selves – by James Hollis
Moral Intelligence – by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel
The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons For A Kinder Society – by Frans De Waal
Power and Innocence – by Rolo May
The Sane Society – by Eric Fromm
A Preface to Morals – by Walter Lippmann
Seeds of Contemplation – by Thomas Merton
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha – by Jack Kerouac
The Heart of the Buddha’s Teachings – by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for An Age of Anxiety – by Alan Watts
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – by Daniel Goleman
A Theory of Justice – by John Rawls
A Theory of Moral Sentiments – by Adam Smith
Integrity – by Stephen Carter
Anarchy, State, and Utopia – by Robert Nozick
Ideology – by David Hawkes
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil – by Philip Zimbardo
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior – by Ori and Rom Brafman
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead – by David Callahan
The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda – by Dr. Amitai Etzioni
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong – by J. L. Mackie
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? – by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Empathetic Civilization – The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis – by Jeremy Rifkin
Justice That Restores – by Charles Colson
The Quest for Cosmic Justice – by Thomas Sowell
Malice Aforethought – How Lawyers Use Secret Rules to Get…Away With It – by David W. Marston
Mean Justice: A Town’s Terror, A Prosecutor’s Power, A Betrayal of Innocence – by Edward Humes
The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America – by Philip K. Howard
Lying and Deception in Everyday Life – Lewis and Saarni (Eds.)
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life – by Robert Trivers
Anti-intellectualism in American Life – by Richard Hofstadter
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference – by Rutger Bregman