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SweetFreedom Posted 11 years ago
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That is, besides saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking?
1) What is the object of the sentence "That is, besides saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking"?
That is, what is the object of "that is"?
2) Does "as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology has taken" mean "as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology has told us"?
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That is, what is the object of "that is"?
2) Does "as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology has taken" mean "as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology has told us"?
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Harris's positive beliefs
The book is full of issues that Harris thinks are far from being empirically, morally grey areas. That is, besides saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking. For instance, he references one poll that found that 36 percent of British Muslims think apostates should be put to death for their unbelief,[21] and he says that these individuals are "morally confused".[22] He also suggests it is obvious that loneliness, helplessness, and poverty are "bad", but that these are by no means as far as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology has taken, and will take us.[23]Top answer
SweetFreedom 1) What is the object of the sentence "That is, besides saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking"? It's not a sentence. There is no object.
- SweetFreedom 1) What is the object of the sentence "That is, besides saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking"?
- It's not a sentence.
- There is no object.
- The author has written a sentence fragment that relates to the previous sentence for stylistic reasons.
- If continued from the previous sentence, there might be a dash, like this: The book is full of issues that Harris thinks are far from being empirically, morally grey areas — issues other than the issue of saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking.
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SweetFreedom1) What is the object of the sentence "That is, besides saying that 'reasonable' thinking about moral issues amounts to scientific thinking"?It's not a sentence. There is no object. The author has written a sentence fragment that relates to the previous sentence for stylistic reasons. If continued from the previous sentence, there might be a da
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So Harris says positive psychology is deep, while saying "it is obvious that loneliness, helplessness, and poverty are "bad"" is a common conversation, shallow, as common as dirt?
So Harris says positive psychology is deep, while saying "it is obvious that loneliness, helplessness, and poverty are "bad"" is a common conversation, shallow, as common as dirt?
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SweetFreedomSo Harris says positive psychology is deep, while saying "it is obvious that loneliness, helplessness, and poverty are "bad"" is a common conversation, shallow, as common as dirt?More or less, yes, but I'm not so sure that he's saying that positive psychology is "deep". My impression is that he thinks it represents a more sophisticated view and m
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