What is the Value of Life, Pt. 6: Education
Does education only exist to make us employable or is it meant to make us better people? There’s no agreement on the answer.
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What Is The Value of Life, Pt. 5: Family
Family! We all have them, but do they raise our value or do they hinder it? What is the best structure for realizing our value?
What Is The Value Of Life, Pt. 4: Work
What we do, our occupation, our work, is an important and unavoidable part of how our lives are valued. That value may be threatened.
What Is The Value of Life, Pt. 3: Morality
Morality plays a large role in how we value life. Good is better than bad. The challenge is, how do we define what is good? This isn’t easy.
What Is The Value Of Life, Pt. 2: Economics
Using economic calculations to place a value on life often falls short of our perception of self-worth. Can one put a dollar value on life?
What Is The Value Of Life, Pt. 1: What IS Life?
Every life presumably has value, but just how much value? Are some lives more valuable than others? Depends on one’s definitions.
Genetic Revolution That Improves Who We Are
Nobel Prize-winning research offers the possibility to dramatically alter human DNA in positive ways. There are opportunities ahead but there are also significant risks and all of it could lead to revolution.