Is valuing a moral act?
Part 1 – The Ethics of Intention “…good intentions in human affairs are often deceptive. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it is partly because that is the road …
Irrespective Of Perspective: POV w/o me
Existence assumes a first person point of view Second and third persons don’t ring true It’s conceited to act as though they do Truth is first person singular Most people think we have …
The Ethics of Existence
Is there a universal categorical hierarchy that is intrinsically purposeful? What is liberating about an ethical hierarchy built on the idea that existence precedes value? Normative morality and ethics have sought to supply …
Stop denying who “the least of these” are!
“Because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40 This is the universal path to moral development: Remember the least of us. …
Alien thought experiments
The most direct access to post-conventional ethical principles that move beyond ethics by authority “might makes right” or by societal norms, is to challenge our socialization by projecting outside of it, using moral …
Why ethics matters
What is ethics or morals, and how does what matters in life depend on it? At the most straightforward level ethics is values. Ethics say what is of value and how to value it. …
Is the right to life human?
Who here wants to be good? Who thinks this is the same as being a good human? Is the highest good for humanity whatever benefits the human species? Is there universal good? Is …
