The Moral Arc INDEX Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 83 Abijah, King, 156 Able Archer 83 Exercise ...

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by  Chris Carruth

The Moral Arc
INDEX
Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 83
Abijah, King, 156
Able Archer 83 Exercise, 68
abortion, 168, 169, 171, 173, 224,
228–30, 229, 232–33, 234, 253
Abrahms, Max, 85
Absolute Weapon, The (Brodie), 61
abstinence, 230–32
"Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive
Sex Education and the
Initiation of Sexual Activity
and Teen Pregnancy," 231
abstract reasoning, 21–30, 22, 23
Abundance (Diamandis), 411
action, 346
Adams, John, 206
Adelman, Kenneth, 69
adhocracy, 402–3
adoption, 247, 248
adultery, 179, 226-27
Index--2
affirmative action, 328
Affluence and Influence (Gilens),
416
Afghanistan, 82, 150, 177
Africa, 151, 430
African Americans, 2, 27, 215, 420
Agency for International
Development, U.S., 230
agentic state, 301–2
Age of Reason, 3, 5, 117, 148
abolition and, 193, 198
Age of Reason, The (Paine), 144
Agnew, Harold, 62
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 71
alchemy, 117
alcohol, 116, 168, 369
Alexander, Kim, 288–89
Algeria, 68
Allen, Paul, 428
Alliot-Marie, Michèle, 220
al Qaeda, 453n–54n
altruism, 30, 421
as costly signal, 57
kin, 39-40
reciprocal, 39–40, 57, 172–73,
180, 207, 339
Amazing Grace (film), 198
American Journal of Public Health,
Index--3
36
American Psychiatric Association,
244
American Revolution, 142–43, 410
amygdala, 347
Analog, 84
analytic empiricism, 136–37
anarchy, 409–10
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
(Nozick), 410
Anarchy Unbound (Leeson), 409
Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 116
Anatomy of Violence, The (Raine),
350–52
anchoring effect, 16
Ancien Régime, 141
Anderson, Eric, 245
Anderson, Ken, 387
Anderson, Kermyt, 225
Angell, Norman, 131–32, 134
anger, 359
Animal Liberation (Singer), 475n
animal rights, 3, 7, 12, 259–94,
472n, 479n
continuous thinking on, 262–69
meat eating and, 272–74, 285–86,
286
in nineteenth century Europe, 18
Index--4
perspective-taking and, 277–80
and principle of interchangeable
perspectives, 269
recent trends in, 284–88, 286
religion and, 283–84
speciesism and, 270–74, 275
Animals as Persons (Francione), 282
animal tracking, 16–17
Animal Wise (Morell), 271–72
animism, 114
anterior cingulate cortex (ACC),
352–53
anteroventral striatum, 127
Anthony, Susan B., 215, 217
anti-ballistic missiles, 70
Anti-Doping Association, U.S., 51
apes, 265, 267, 270, 293
see also specific apes
Apocalypse Now (film), 287
Apocalypto (film), 100
Apple, 258
approach-avoidance conflict, 42, 313
Aranit, 300
Archimedes, 118
Arc of War, The (Levy and
Thompson), 98
Are Dolphins Really Smart? (Gregg),
264
Index--5
Arendt, Hannah, 303–4
Aristotle, 118, 147
Arizona, 434
Arkush, Elizabeth, 98–99
arms races, 61
Armstrong, Lance, 51
Aronson, Elliott, 200
Arpanet, 403
Arreguín-Toft, Ivan, 407
Arsenals of Folly (Rhodes), 67–68
Art of Community, The (Heath), 408–9
Asch, Solomon, 325
Ask-First Principle, 181, 292
assembly, freedom of, 4, 408
Assembly, French, 141
assortive mating, 140
astrology, 116, 117
astronomy, 117
Astro Teller, 403
Atascadero, 243
atheism, 148
Athreya, Kartik, 418–19
atomic bombs, 62–65, 71–72
see also nuclear weapons
Atran, Scott, 82, 453n–54n
attentiveness, 12
Augustine, Saint, 283, 293, 477n
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 275, 304, 305
Index--6
Australia, 67, 68, 138, 168, 394–95
Austria, 164, 168
Auten, Gerald, 419
autocracies, 4, 128–29, 130, 135
autonomy, freedom of, 4
Aztecs, 436
Bacon, Francis, 118
Baker, Robin, 225
balance of power, 71, 459
balance of terror, 61
Bales, Kevin, 211
Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD),
79–80
bands, 432
Bangladesh, 416
Ban Ki-moon, 68
banks, 115, 117
Barber, Benjamin, 403–4
Barbieri, Katherine, 131
Barra, Mary, 220
Barstow, Anne Llewellyn, 113
Bastiat, Frederick, 126
Bastiat's Principle, 126
Battistone, Sam, Sr., 189–90
"battle of the books," 118
Baumeister, Roy, 81, 175, 306
BBC Prison, 324
Index--7
Beagle, HMS, 262
bear baiting, 283
Beautiful Mind, A (film), 49
Beccaria, Cesare, 51, 368
Becoming Eichmann (film), 304
behavioral activation system (BAS),
313–14
behavioral inhibition system (BIS),
313–14
Beinhocker, Eric, 418
Believing Brain, The (Shermer), 140
Bellis, Mark, 225
Benedict XVI, Pope, 254
Bentham, Jeremy, 270
Bernhard, Hans, 319
Berns, Gregory, 266–68, 325
Berra, Yogi, 397
Bertelsmann Foundation
Transformation Index (BTI), 145
Better Angels of Our Nature, The
(Pinker), 4–5, 93
between-group enmity, 362
Betzig, Laura, 156
biases, 16, 386, 426
Bible, 118, 177
immorality of, 154–61
slavery supported by, 194–98
big man, 368
Index--8
bigotry, 328
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
31
Bill of Rights, U.S., 13
Billy, 375–78
binge drinking, 327, 328
bin Laden, Osama, 83
biological weapons, 76, 77, 86
Biophilia Principle, 185, 292–93
birds, 12, 342–43
Björklund, Leni, 220
Black, Donald, 370–71
Blackmun, Harry, 388–89
Blackstone, William, 206
Blank Slate, The (Pinker), 140
blood, circulation of, 122, 123, 124
Blood and Soil (Kiernan), 137
Bloody Sunday, 1
Bloom, Paul, 44–46
Bloomberg, Michael, 404, 428
Bloomberg School of Public Health,
36
bodily mutilation, 91
Boehm, Christopher, 363–65, 365,
366, 367, 484n
Bohnett, Newell, 189–90
bonobos, 359–60
book of nature, 118
Index--9
Bosco, David, 392–93
Boston, Mass., 400
Boston Marathon bombing, 83
bounded rationality, 443
Bowles, Samuel, 96–97, 102
Bowling Alone (Putnam), 172–73
Boyd, Robert, 363
brain synchronicity, 28–29
brain tumors, 348–49, 350, 351
Brand, Stewart, 405–6
Brandt, Karl, 311
Brandt, Willy, 394
Brass, Marcel, 340–41
Brazil, 68
Brecke, Peter, 393
Breen, Joseph, 494n
Brigham Young University, 258
"Bright Children Become Enlightened
Adults", 27
Brin, Sergey, 399
British Columbia, Canada, 67
British National Journal, 231–32
Brodie, Bernard, 61
Bronowski, Jacob, 11
Brookings Institution, 419
Brooks, Andrew, 266–67
Brooks, Arthur C., 167–68
Brosnan, Sarah, 360–61, 362
Index--10
Browning, Christopher, 317–19, 320
Browning, Robert, 397
Brunswick, Duke of, 112
Bryant, Anita, 241
Buffett, Warren, 428
Bulgaria, 229
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 67
bullfights, 287
bullying, 42, 77, 90, 159, 346,
353, 357, 363, 365–66, 367,
484n
Bundy, Ted, 344
Burger, Jerry, 303
Burger King, 290
Burke, Edmund, 135, 143, 258
Burks, Stephen, 26
Burn, Harry T., 217
Burns, Lucy, 215, 216, 217
Burtless, Gary, 417, 418
Burton, Robert, 116
Bush, George W., 81, 84, 172, 273
business interventionism, 27
Buss, David, 227, 356–58
Byrne, Richard, 265
Byzantine Empire, 163
Calico, 413
California, 247, 369, 388