"What explains the appeal of such evidence-free conspiracy theories? Classic psychological explanations focus on negative emotions: when people feel anxious, out of control or uncertain, they become more susceptible to conspiracy narratives. Accordingly, conspiracy beliefs gain traction in societal crisis situations and are more common among groups that experience structural oppression." https://psyche.co/ideas/how-conspiracy-theories-bypass-peoples-rationality?
Moral molecules published also in Psyche Ideas lists virtues as a way to live in a world overwhelmed with inequality when large groups of people suffer hunger and homelessness.
Here are the lists from different ages and teachers:
Plato: temperance, courage, wisdom and justice
Aristotle: generosity, magnanimity, friendliness, honesty
Ancient Egyptians: 42 sins of Maat
Judaism: 613 commandments and the famous 10, including prohibitions against murder, adultery, stealing and lying
Christianity: added faith, hope and charity to Plato’s list
Taoists: practise eight virtues, including filial piety, sibling harmony, trustworthiness, honour and a sense of shame.
Aberewa, a spirit figure of the Akan of Ghana: paying your debts and accepting requests for help, and discourage disobeying chiefs and ‘carrying firewood in bundles into town’.
W D Ross: fidelity, reparation, gratitude, non-maleficence, beneficence, self-improvement and justice.
Psychologists have argued for community, autonomy, divinity, unity, respect, equality, proportionality.
And the Unitarian Universalist Association add an 8th Principle: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. https://www.8thprincipleuu.org
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