
Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI
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The Story of Humanism
There is no one story that unites us efficiently, he says. The moment we have a story that's carried us thus far, but is no longer able to provide solutions to our current problems, the story falls apart. That's what happened during the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, right? We had sort of the Dark Ages, during which time religion was the major story of organizing our civilization. People are looking for new stories or going back to the old stories,. Whether fascism in Italy, whether, you know, let's make America great again, or whether Boris Johnson's populism.
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