What is Antinatalism?
Recent news of an Indian businessman, Raphael Samuel, suing his parents for giving birth to him has brought attention to a somewhat obscure philosophical position known as antinatalism. But what…
The 5 Most Interesting Things I learned this Year
One of the big reasons I started this blog was to learn philosophy, and so I wanted to take this last post of 2018 as an opportunity for me to…
The Philosophical Lens (November 2018): Meaning of Gratitude and Giving Thanks
With it being Thanksgiving in the states, I found myself contemplating the nature of giving thanks and expressing gratitude in general. It turns out that there’s a rich literature on…
13 Weird and Spooky Philosophical Thought Experiments
Given that it’s Halloween, I thought for this month’s post I’d get a bit festive by talking about 13 spooky concepts in philosophy, and I could think of nothing spookier…
What is Ethics? Pt 4: Virtue Ethics
While consequentialism and deontological ethics play a major role in shaping the debate around normative ethics, there is a third much older perspective regarding ethics that is enjoying contemporary resurgence….
What is Ethics? Pt 3: Normative Ethics
In the last post we covered metaethics, and in this post we’re going to cover normative ethics. Metaethics largely centered around the nature and meaning of ethics and moral content,…
What is Ethics? Pt 2: Issues in Metaethics
In this second post on ethics, we’ll be going into greater detail regarding topics in metaethics. What exactly is metaethics? To outsiders and newcomers to philosophy, metaethics is likely large,…
Environmentalism and Environmental Ethics: Where Does Value Come from?
This April marked the 48th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and a lot has changed since then. Our understanding of our role in shaping ecosystems and climate systems has…
The Philosophical Lens (June 2018): Why Defining Suicide is Difficult
This month I’ve decided to try something new. Rather than do a round-up of stories from various philosophy related publications, I’ve decided to develop a new segment covering a broad…
What is Ethics?
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites,…