On Columbia University student’s complaints that Ovid is “triggering”
Category Archives: Philosophy
The difference between philosophical and political conservatism
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Dennis Prager on why the Left hates Pamela Geller
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Dogs, children and life
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The stultifying conformity of modern “Stepford Students”
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Conjectures about why the Left attaches such importance to attacking Libertarian arguments
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Over-elaborate ethical dilemmas
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Over-elaborate ethical dilemmas
The Meta-Ethical Problem
There’s an out of control trolley speeding towards Immanuel Kant. You have the ability to pull a lever and change the trolley’s path so it hits Jeremy Bentham instead. Jeremy Bentham clutches the only existing copy of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. Kant holds the only existing copy of Bentham’s The Principles of Morals and Legislation. Both of them are shouting at you that they have recently started to reconsider their ethical stances.
Does the concept of cultural plasticity support the liberal or conservative approach?
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What the Left can learn from Ayn Rand
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Political inclinations for various professions
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Ayn Rand as novelist
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Empathy and altruism, compassion, psychopathy
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Empathy and altruism, compassion, psychopathy
The author makes some nice counter-intuitive arguments about the value of empathy.
H/t: Marginal Revolution