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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Must we pursue good causes to have meaningful lives? (Part One)

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George Bailey,  It's a Wonderful Life I’ve occasionally dipped my toe into the literature on the meaning of life and reported back...
Monday, May 13, 2013

How should we respond to moral risk? (Part Two)

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( Part One ) Our moral reasoning follows well-worn pathways. An argument is presented telling us that a particular action should be de...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

How should we respond to moral risk? (Part One)

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Philosophy can be an exhausting and debilitating business. As someone once said (I’m paraphrasing) “the unexamined life is not worth liv...
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Raz and the Argument from Authority (Part Two)

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Joseph Raz ( Part One ) Joseph Raz is known for his werewolf-like mane of hair, and his complex conceptual analyses of morality, law...

Raz and the Argument from Authority (Part One)

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Joseph Raz -- definitely one of the coolest looking philosophers out there. Joseph Raz is one the more estimable modern moral, politica...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Revisiting Nagel on the Absurdity of Life (Part Two)

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( Part One ) As an undergraduate student (in law), many many years ago,* I read Albert Camus’s book The Myth of Sisyphus . The work in...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Revisiting Nagel on the Absurdity of Life (Part One)

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Is life absurd? Should we bother with it? Does it matter either way? Rightly or wrongly, Thomas Nagel’s 1971 article, “ The Absurd ”, is...
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