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		<title>Virtue Verbiage: Thou shalt always throw</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I found myself at a business consultant&#8217;s birthday party where I met a warm fellow who was eager to tell me about a book he has just written about caring. Like all consultants, he was able to describe how dysfunctional large organizations can be and quick also to identify the one thing that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conventional wisdom: In times like these we need more of what specifically?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 15:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t choose to do all this philosophizing the way one chooses a career. I got into it by necessity. What I had to go on before was inadequate. I had hit a midlife crisis armed with state-of-the-art wisdom from self-help and Buddhism . . . and it just wasn&#8217;t up to the task. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar&#8217;s Paradox Moral Litmus Test: If you contradict yourself you can&#8217;t both be right</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I be thinking about the bigger picture?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people, when admonished to comply with moral absolutes&#8211;to always be honest, generous, tolerant, or the like&#8211;nod their heads at the sage advice. Me, I no longer see moral absolutes; I only see moral dilemmas. I think of honesty, generosity, tolerance, and other seemingly monolithic virtues as questions, not answers. As of this week I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Careful Caring: We can&#8217;t always care, so why feel guilty when called uncaring?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t say I don&#8217;t care. I do care.&#8221; Like many words, care means different kinds of things. It has its descriptive meaning&#8211;its denotation: Caring is a certain kind of behavior. But it also has its prescriptive meaning&#8211;its connotation: Caring is good. You should care. Being uncaring is bad. Combining denotation and connotation you get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottom Fine Line: Beneath every bottom line secret to success there&#8217;s a fine line between success and failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard about “The Secret”? A student invited me to his house to watch the DVD, which has sold over 1.5 million copies. He claimed it had changed his life. We made an informal field trip of it, but I had to cut the engagement short. It made my skin crawl. I couldn’t stay [...]]]></description>
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