new link to Zimbardo

Fascinating talk at last year’s TED from Philip Zimbardo (leader of infamous Stanford experiment)  about evil and social institutions
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html
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Can society play the god role?

Have been pondering whether it is essential to embrace a concept of God to displace the ego-self from the centre of the universe, as part of Jung’s indidivuation process. Just imagining addressing a group of professional bodies…. I am happy to see ethics as a fundamentally spiritual issue but don’t want to close off discussion [...]

Ethical approaches

Wondered if ethical approaches could be put in a kind of matrix or typology, along the following lines:
a) Judeo-Christian = emphasis on goodness, idealised versions of humanity (eg Christ figure); dualistic, with God= Good; Satan = evil. Purpose of religion is to ensure highest ethics with heavenly rewards. In time, ethics and role of religion [...]