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Da Vinci's Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an Ermine). c.1490, can be seen at Czartorychi Muzeum, Cracow, Poland.  Image courtesy of Olga's Gallery.

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Library of Ethical Development

Science and Sensibility: Do Humans Have a Moral Sense?
How do we determine what is right? It's not as easy as it sounds, despite the fact that there's a vast field of study devoted to the topic which is described using terms like ethics, or moral philosophy.

Through the Looking Glass:  Mirror Neurons and Moral Nonsense
Three years after James Q. Wilson proposed that mankind has an innate moral sense, Italian neuroscientists discovered "mirror neurons" and connected them to the capacity for empathy. Are these neurons, in some small part, the underpinning of our “moral sense”?

Green With Compassion
When human relationships are good, life is good; and perhaps the most important relationship when it comes to ensuring that life is good, or that it’s even possible at all, is the crucial interaction that occurs between people and the land they inhabit. Unfortunately humanity’s track record with regard to its other relationships does not bode well for the planet. 

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