Philosophy & Ethics
Do Only I Exist: Some Not-so-Solipsistic Views
Exploring Husserl and Wittgenstein on solipsism: is reality only mine, or shared through intersubjectivity, language, and experience?
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Metaphysical and ethical questions—on beauty, mind, and the good.
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A Liberal Case for Natural Law
Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?
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On Beauty
Can we make objective judgments of beauty? Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder? The following essay argues that we can indeed make objective judgments of beauty, although beauty itself is nothing other than a kind of subjective experience of pleasure.
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A Chance to Make It
Cosmic re-enactment in the path of Ars Regia.
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The Philosophy of Quantum Physics 7: Is Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?
A look at different philosophical interpretations of quantum physics. This is the seventh post in the series.
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Time and Eternity: Is the Kingdom in the Present?
Time is like reading a single page at a time, while eternity is like holding the entire book in your hands and seeing all pages simultaneously.
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On Descartes and Certainty
An essay about Cartesian certainty and its role in global scepticism. It is argued that we should reject his views: the condition of certainty imposes on knowledge is too strong to be acceptable to the point that it undermines itself and hence his rationalist project is ultimately self-defeating.
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Improving the Self through Virtue Ethics
This essay is about the applications of virtue ethics - a normative theory of ethics - in everyday life. Normative ethics, virtue ethics, and its applications to self-improvement are discussed.
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Does God cause the grass to grow?
Is it truly God that causes the grass to grow? Is not the growth of such grass fully explained by science? If matter provides a sufficient explanation, how can God be regarded as the cause?
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Love, fairness and the problem of value
This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.