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#228 — Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How to Approach Doing Good in the World?

i'm very eager to have this conversation because it still seems to me there's a lot of thinking yet to do about how to approach doing good in the world. You directly inspired me to start giving a minimum of ten per cent of my income to charity, and also to commit waking up as a company to give a minimum of 10 per cent of its profits to charity. These are questions that lie at the core of moral philosophy, and at the core of any person's individual attempt to live a unexamined life. We're trying to converge on a common picture of what it would mean for us to be building a world that is making it more likely that humanity is moving in the right

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