Moralities of Everyday Life

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Taught by
Paul Bloom
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University
and 7 more instructors

Offered by
Yale University

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3 posts • 21 mentions • top 15 shown below

r/learnprogramming • comment
21 points • sonnytron

Definitely.
And remember, it's not just programming classes that are free online.

If anything, one huge advantage you have is that you can watch lectures and since you''re not taking them for a grade, you can take them JUST for the information and knowledge the professor passes.

And if you write a blog about it, you can essentially be doing "written essay" assignments about the material you learned about.

Since I've captured your attention, let me give you some recommendations for "non computer science" classes you can study/watch 100% free that will not just make you a better programmer/engineer, but also give you some problem solving and interesting knowledge in general.

This is an Engineering Ethics course taught by MIT, the 2006 archived version. They discuss the ramifications and engineer obligations related to a waste disposal site, that's caused millions in clean-up efforts, ruined peoples' health and caused mandatory relocations. Ever watch the movie Erin Brokovich, about the attorney discovering dirty water in California? While the movie makes it out to be some government/lawyer regulation related incident, you can be rest assured that disasters like that, at their infancy, had an engineer standing in their way. We studied the Challenger Disaster for my thesis on Engineering Ethics.
You can be writing code that manages self driving cars or decides the difference between someone making it home in 10 minutes or 40 minutes when they just worked a double shift. Engineering ethics is a very interesting and very important topic for you.

This is a World History course taught by Anne McCants, a Levitan price winning author who's written to exhaustion about world history and the social ramifications of industrialization from western European powers.

And here's a Psychology Course by Paul Bloom from Yale University about the moralities of everyday life.

You don't even have to do the homework, just watch the lectures and check out the readings. Enjoy :)

r/samharris • post
8 points • MrPoopCrap
Morality lecture comparing Haidt and Harris

https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities/lecture/2Yw5T/the-big-questions

Part of a course from Paul Bloom (former podcast guest)

r/samharris • comment
3 points • goodfoofisgood

Paul Bloom has one as well.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities

r/tangentiallyspeaking • post
3 points • HamsterInTheClouds
Moralities of Everyday Life. Moral Psych
r/NoFapChristians • comment
2 points • Tim-112

It's good that you're establishing your personal moral boundaries. An important principle you're conveying is this: "Paid porn/sex is morally worse than unpaid porn/sex partly because the porn/sex industry is unethical and immoral. Volunteer porn/sex isn't as morally bad." These are difficult questions to tackle but they help us get in congruence with our core values and beliefs. Maybe you'd be interested in this free, online, self-paced course given by Yale University: Moralities of Everyday Life.

Apart from questions and agreements/disagreements about the morality of paid and unpaid porn/sex, and most importantly for us; viewing either volunteer or professionally created sexually arousing material causes our addiction to advance. And, it promotes addiction in the producers of the material [professional or volunteer]. I'm encouraged by your progress; you're working on deleting your sources. That helps promote a decline in porn/sex addiction for everyone involved.

r/chile • comment
1 points • Bl4nkface

Este curso sobre moral lo encontré súper entretenido. Se ven las corrientes de la filosofía moral más importantes (utilitarismo, ética deontológica, virtud, etc.) y problemas éticos como el Trolley Problem y un montón de conceptos interesantes más.

r/serbiancringe • comment
1 points • jedannalogzabaciti

Registruj se na https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities (može i login preko gugl naloga) i otvori Week 6, Lesson 1 "Morality as Part of Our Nature".

r/serbia • comment
1 points • l0r3mipsum

Čudno je da je "aktiviste" nazivao kolektivistima, baš je suprotno. Društveno liberalna levica o kojoj on govori je mahom individualistička i smatra jednak tretman i pravičnost (fairness) najcenjenijom vrednosti, zbog toga i trigerovanje ove grupe na nepoštovanje manjina. S druge strane, konzervativna društva su mahom kolektivistička i najviše vrednuju čast (think Kilngons). Paul Bloom ima odličan kurs na korseri, Moralities of Everyday Life, Mislim da četvrta nedelja ima za temu razlike među društvima po pitanju moralnih vrednosti.

r/DebateAVegan • comment
1 points • howlin

> Why do so many people perceive killing or raping another human as wrong?

If you really want an answer, consider signing up below. Classes start today, but you still have time!

https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities?

r/AskSocialScience • comment
1 points • spencermcc

I was going to post this and then fell asleep!

I enjoyed this "Moral Psychology" class from Paul Bloom / Yale https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities

r/ffxiv • comment
1 points • I_give_karma_to_men

Let me get this straight: you seriously think selling a digital housing plot for digital currency is morally equivalent to murder? Have you ever crossed the middle of a street? Cheated on a test no matter how insignificant? Lied to someone? Violating a video game ToS is closer morally to any of those things than it is to literally killing a person.

If you want, Coursera has an intro philosophy course and a more focused course on morality if you need to brush up on your moral philosophy.

r/adultery • comment
0 points • thesunsetstreet
r/LifeProTips • comment
1 points • Slap-Chopin

I’d strongly recommend the course Social Psychology from Wesleyan University as well: https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-psychology

The Yale well being course delves primarily into psychology relating to our self experience - our biases in expectation, our lack of accuracy in predicting what will make us happy, how to overcome these flaws. In the course, some time is spent on our social relationships, as that something that is consistently found to be of major weight in regards to happiness.

Social Psychology extends these concepts further outside of self experience, and examines how they color the breadth of our experiences with other people. How quickly do we judge others, and do we even know we do that? How do we judge others differently than ourselves? Why do we behave differently in groups? What makes a good person conform to bad behaviors? What makes us act compassionately?

The social psychology course then ends in a way that ties it back to the well being course: what are the means of improving our social relationships, and what really makes us happy.

For further study related to these, the below courses are great (and free!):

The Moralities of Everyday Life from Yale - the psychology of morality. For example, we consider our moralities fixed, intellectual parts of ourselves - but why when given a questionnaire in a foul smelling room are we more likely to be against gay marriage and than if given the same questionnaire in a clean smelling room? Some reading on this particular aspect of disgust and morality can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/opinion/24pizarro.html

Foundations of Modern Social Theory from Yale - overview of major social thinkers. The above talk about the individual, and the direct relation, but what structures emerge from the individuals and how do those structures change the behavior of the individual? This course takes a broad scope, looking into the political theory Hobbes, Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands, Marx’s ideas of alienation and historical development, Neitzsche’s view of power, Freuds tying of sexuality and civilization, Weber’s ideas of class, and Durkheim’s theories on social solidarity and how suicide is often not a purely individual choice. Great for understanding the foundation of modern sociology.

r/AskSocialScience • comment
1 points • Rlyeh_Dispatcher

I don't know about books, but I do strongly recommend her(?) to try out some recorded lectures or MOOCs on Psychology 101, just to get used to the flavour of what a university lecture might be like (you can audit all of them for free). Some that I can find right now: