Tuesday, 14 August 2012

#169 Time for wisdom, conscience, ethics ...


     "Omar Bradley, an American World War II field commander and later chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lamented in a 1948 Armistice Day speech: 'The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.'"
        Frimer JA et al. The integration of agency and communion in moral personality: Evidence of enlightened self-interest. J Pers Soc Psychol 2011; 101(1): 149-63.

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