An unmistakable sense of lightness has come over me. I wonder: am I no longer chained to the wheel of samsara? Have I achieved enlightenment? In alignment with the Tao? Seamlessly integrated into my r… more →
A Ku Indeed!wrote 2 days ago: I think maybe I explained situationism rather poorly back here in skepticism about moral character. … more →
wrote 3 days ago: Here is my very late reply to Jim on skepticism about moral character. The short answer: No, in all … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: The other day, my buddy Adam over at Sophistpundit wrote about Character. I was not surprised that, … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: John McDowell suggests that Aristotle’s ethics are a forerunner of second nature in German Idealism, … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m looking at Foucault’s work on antique ethics in History of Sexuality, as an agonistic virtue eth … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I found two highlights in this issue: a review of Michael Sandel’s Justice: What’s the R … more →
wrote 1 month ago: My thoughts for this post came about in the most immediate sense from Will Wilkinson: a post at his … more →
wrote 1 month ago: K-Punk (aka writer Mark Fisher) writes about possible responses to the BNP on his blog: “Much of the … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “Never trust yourself to appear in public, unless you love solitude; to speak, unless you love sile … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Friends, In defense of my last post: Somebody here has to present to highly-reasoned philosophical a … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I was thrilled to receive this thoughtful comment on my last post on my vegan experiment: Comment fr … more →
wrote 2 months ago: 1. Persons (and ethical agency) ‘The I in Me’.. Thomas Nagel reviews Galen Strawson’s book … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The Competent Man’s Guide to Virtue Ethics. Virtue Ethics are credited as a creation of Aristo … more →
wrote 2 months ago: This chapter will begin by opening up Lewis’s use of medieval understandings of natural law ov … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Moral philosophy has been recently shifting its attention to a classical view on ethics – virtue eth … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Recently, there’s been quite a bit of outrage over the greed that corporations have shown, as … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Dealing with Intrinsic Human Value Prelude | Essence and Potentiality | Definitions | What is human? … more →
wrote 4 months ago: What does it mean to be an expatriate? What does it mean to have an expatriate faith? All this week, … more →
wrote 5 months ago: While I was at the IHS seminar last week, someone mentioned in passing the issue of whether or not i … more →