Common Sense Ethics is a philosophy and personal growth website for everyone. If you're interested in living a good life, becoming a better person and exploring the human condition, you'll feel right at home here!  

Choosing to live well promotes happiness, integrity, and virtue - leading to a better world.

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About Common Sense Ethics:

I started Common Sense Ethics in 2013 from a desire to unite philosophy with personal growth elements from the classical wisdom traditions, positive and Jungian psychology movements. The goal is to create a holistic, practical framework for personal growth.

Analytic philosophy can be abstract and theoretical, and with the exception of the ancient Socratic and Stoic traditions, it tends to lack introspective dimensions common to the personal growth and psychology fields.

On the other hand, self help resources often are superficial and arbitrary because they are not based on philosophy, religion, or the wisdom traditions. Self-help resources do not or incompletely focus on ethics, character, individual rights, responsibility, critical thinking, and personal conduct. These topics are often the focus of philosophical and religious sources.

Common Sense Ethics seeks to bridge this gap emphasizing the primacy of ethics, character, and personal conduct - drawing from diverse sources and written in a way that everyone understands.

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Core Concepts:

What makes Common Sense Ethics different? I write about eclectic topics including family and parenting, non-partisan political analysis, propaganda studies, practical tips for leading a better life, analysis of movies, books, and TV shows, media/information literacy, personal growth advice from famous philosophers, happiness, and much more.  

I created this site to enrich the lives of others. It is also a way for me to give back to the online community. I am grateful to creators of interesting and valuable content that has helped me to learn and grow. 

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I use Amazon Affiliate Links for the books that I cite from and recommend on the blog, and I may earn a small commission for any books purchased via Amazon. I do this because it seems to fit in organically given what I write about, and to offset the costs of blog hosting and maintenance. 

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All of my articles are Creative Commons and you are free to republish them in full with attribution to Leah Goldrick at Common Sense Ethics and a link back to the original post here. Please note that Creative Commons licensing does not apply to posts by guest authors published on this website - check with the individual author about copyright. Any images on this website not otherwise attributed, are the author's creations. Please feel free to share and use my images while crediting www.commonsenseethics.com.