Blackstone wrote that “it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”. Fortescue wrote “one would much rather that twenty guilty […] Read More
Category: Discussions
How well a person’s life is going (i.e., how high it is in welfare or well-being) is determined by how good or bad for that […] Read More
Welcome to what should be a fun and enlightening discussion of Kate Norlock‘s “Can’t Complain” (which the Journal of Moral Philosophy has generously provided free […] Read More
I came to philosophy motivated by a long-standing sense that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we live, a sentiment well expressed in […] Read More
Collegiate athletics is likely going to change significantly in the near future and we should think together about how we want to direct that change. […] Read More
When we talk about what is good for a person, our talk may invoke different notions of a person’s good. No one of these notions […] Read More
When theorizers assess how people are doing, they often speak in terms of happiness or in terms of well-being. Neither of these appears ideal to […] Read More
Nomy Arpaly writes: “Aristotle doesn’t talk about the Moral Person. He talks about the Cool Dude!” See where that takes us at Nomy’s blog here.
A couple of years ago, I posted about an open letter about the ethics of compensating bone marrow stem cell donors. Peter M. Jaworski and […] Read More