[마이리뷰] Institutional Review Board: Member Handbook

Institutional Review Board: Member Handbook (Paperback, 4)
Elizabeth A. Bankert / Jones & Bartlett Publishers / 2021년 1월

Apart from any internal desire to protect the institutionon the part of individual members, the institution mustalso avoid placing external pressure on the IRB to servein this role. This may be a natural expectation for deans,
provosts, presidents, and other officials and, as previouslymentioned, is not necessarily incompatible with the roleof the IRB, but should never be confused with its primaryrole. - P107

[마이리뷰] 호모 데우스

호모 데우스 - 미래의 역사 ㅣ 인류 3부작 시리즈
유발 하라리 지음, 김명주 옮김 / 김영사 / 2017년 5월

우리가 역사를 알아야 하는 가장 큰 이유는 이처럼 미래를 예측하기 위해서가 아니라, 과거에서 해방되어 다른 운명을 상상하기 위해서이다. - P98

[마이리뷰] Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow (Paperback, 영국판) - <호모 데우스> 원서
Yuval Noah Harari / Vintage Publishing / 2017년 3월

In 1776 the Founding Fathers of the United States establishedthe right to the pursuit of happiness as one of three unalienablehuman rights, alongside the right to life and the right to liberty. It‘simportant to note, however, that the American Declaration ofIndependence guaranteed the right to the pursuit of happiness, notthe right to happiness itself. Crucially, Thomas Jefferson did notmake the state responsible for its citizens‘ happiness. Rather, hesought only to limit the power of the state. - P36

[마이리뷰] Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow (Paperback, 영국판) - <호모 데우스> 원서
Yuval Noah Harari / Vintage Publishing / 2017년 3월

In 1776 the Founding Fathers of the United States establishedthe right to the pursuit of happiness as one of three unalienablehuman rights, alongside the right to life and the right to liberty. It‘simportant to note, however, that the American Declaration ofIndependence guaranteed the right to the pursuit of happiness, notthe right to happiness itself. Crucially, Thomas Jefferson did notmake the state responsible for its citizens‘ happiness. Rather, hesought only to limit the power of the state. - P36

[마이리뷰] Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
Yuval Noah Harari / Perennial / 2018년 5월

But the most important finding of all is that happiness does notreally depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or evencommunity. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objectiveconditions and subjective expectations. - P382

Another is that the findings demonstrate thathappiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments.
Rather, happiness consists in seeing one‘s life in its entirety as mean-ingful and worthwhile. There is an important cognitive and ethi-cal component to happiness. Our values make all the difference towhether we see ourselves as ‘miserable slaves to a baby dictator‘ oras ‘lovingly nurturing a new life?? As Nietzsche put it, if you have awhy to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can beextremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a mean-ingless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. - P391

People are liberated from suffering not when they experience thisor that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the imper-manent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them. This is theaim of Buddhist meditation practices. - P395

We stand poised on the brink of becoming true cyborgs, of havinginorganic features that are inseparable from our bodies, features thatmodify our abilities, desires, personalities and identities. - P404

Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the firsttime in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it might bepoised to create the most unequal of all societies. Throughout his-tory, the upper classes always claimed to be smarter, stronger andgenerally better than the underclass. They were usually deludingthemselves. - P410