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theatlantic: 74% of Virtuous Words Are Used Less Frequently in Books Than They Were a Century Ago  Simply, fewer virtue words in books means that the concepts those words stand for are less a part of the individual and societal consciousness. “People simply do not think/talk/write about morality and virtue as much anymore,” the Kesebirs write. “The vocabulary for talking about issues of good and bad, right and wrong thus seems to be shrinking…” If we aren’t using moral words in our vocabularies, what are we using?  Read more. [Image: Flickr/Len Matthews] pragmatism has replaced honor

theatlantic:

74% of Virtuous Words Are Used Less Frequently in Books Than They Were a Century Ago 

Simply, fewer virtue words in books means that the concepts those words stand for are less a part of the individual and societal consciousness. “People simply do not think/talk/write about morality and virtue as much anymore,” the Kesebirs write. “The vocabulary for talking about issues of good and bad, right and wrong thus seems to be shrinking…”

If we aren’t using moral words in our vocabularies, what are we using? 

Read more. [Image: Flickr/Len Matthews]

pragmatism has replaced honor

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