Legal Foundations of a Free Societyhttps://xenisa.github.io/kinsella/lffs/legal-foundations-of-a-free-society.html
and fancies of some philosophers that are supposed to do the job. But this is hardly less arbitrary, one would think! And, of course, since no real person had or could have agreed
Can Environmentalist Escape Philosophy?https://gadfly.igc.org/papers/ceep.htm
is the Time for Philosophers to Come to the Aid of Their Planet," published in 1998, is available at this site. Teachers of environmental ethics are free to use these e
Overcoming Epistemology by Charles Taylorhttps://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/taylor.htm
views about famous philosophers of the tradition, which bore a rather distant relation to the truth. It is reminiscent of a parallel phenomenon in the arts, whereby the political
Objectivity Without Objectivismhttps://stpeter.im/writings/rand/objectivity.html
between scientists and philosophers, especially where they meet in the borderlands between biology, the social sciences, and the humanities. We are approaching a new age of synthe
Morality Plus Sumhttps://gadfly.igc.org/eds/ethics/plussum.htm
of morality; what philosophers call “meta-ethics.” So just what is the meaning of “morality is a plus-sum game?” While it is easy enough to articulate this question, spelling out
Communitarianismhttps://ethicalpolitics.org/blackwood/communitarianism.htm
and Hegel, political philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer disputed Rawls assumption that the principal task of government is
Pluralism in the Western Thoughthttp://www.ghandchi.com/301-PluralismEng.htm
not limited to analytic philosophers such as Nelson Goodman (author of Many Ways of World Making). It is promoted by diverse scientists and philosophers ranging from David Bohm
Pluralism historically has been associated with democratic thinking
Rawls and Posterity NSFhttps://gadfly.igc.org/Unpublished/70/RawlsPosterity.htm
Problem. All moral philosophers who deal with the posterity question must face the inevitable and immutable condition of non-reciprocity ; namely, the fact that while early genera
In Praise of Passivityhttps://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/papers/passivity.htm
under the purview of philosophers: evaluative knowledge. This type of knowledge, too, is difficult to test; indeed, it may be impossible in principle to test. (I of course do not
Right v Left: The Elementshttps://gadfly.igc.org/politics/elements.htm
is well known to philosophers. For example, Plato wrote at length about all the above concepts, and often came to no firm conclusion. In fact his best known work, “The Republic,”
Why Care About the Future?https://gadfly.igc.org/papers/wcaf.htm
theologians and philosophers and to many psychologists and sociologists, it is the central problem of our time. In various ways they tell us that ties have snapped that formerly b
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Two Faces of Liberalismhttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gray-liberalism.html
surprising that liberal philosophers differ about the most fundamental requirements of justice. Today, most liberal thinkers affirm that justice is the supreme virtue of social in
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