Reading PathsInnocence and the greater good
Ten readings comparing suffering, care, duty, and responsibility without prescribing a belief.
10 readings
What you will practice: Compare duties and consequences without treating suffering as an abstract price others must pay.
- The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Enchiridion · Epictetus
- What Men Live By · Leo Tolstoy
- Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
- Dhammapada · Dhammapada (Buddhist tradition)
- Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
- The Analects · Confucius
- The Republic · Plato
- Tao Te Ching · Laozi
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Begin with hidden suffering, then examine attention, obligation, judgment, and the limits of compassion.
10 readings
What you will practice: Use a detail from a text to explain whose needs a judgment overlooks, without assuming sympathy settles every choice.
- The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde
- Silas Marner · George Eliot
- What Men Live By, and Other Tales · Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Analects · Confucius
- Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
- Tao Te Ching · Laozi
- Dhammapada · Dhammapada (Buddhist tradition)
- Women and Economics · Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Frankenstein · Mary Shelley
Open Reading Path →Reading PathsHelp now, change the conditions
Compare immediate help with duties, incentives, and institutions that shape recurring suffering.
10 readings
What you will practice: Defend a response to harm that considers both immediate needs and the consequences of the proposed solution.
- The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde
- What Men Live By, and Other Tales · Leo Tolstoy
- The Analects · Confucius
- Twenty Years at Hull-House · Jane Addams
- Essays on Political Economy · Frédéric Bastiat
- Unto This Last · John Ruskin
- The Republic · Plato
- The Enchiridion · Epictetus
- What Men Live By, and Other Tales · Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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