Philosophy web-courses should contain a warning: Danger Brain My Explode. Invest in coffee, aspirin and find a hobby to relieve pressure. A good beginning for Aristotle Virtue Ethics: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ Some semi-random thoughts as I read through student posts… Acting “Out of character” sounds like something we would hear with respect to a virtue ethics. [...]
Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. "To be useful, moral principles must be general; but, being general, their utility is inescapably limited. The future, however much it may resemble the past, provides its own novelties. A set of moral principles covering all possible moral eventualities [...]
I wonder how many people realize that without Judas…Jesus would not have died for their sins. Something to think about. I have no idea what this is about.
Like many others, I’m somewhat ecstatic that the Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. However, thinking about events over the years since 9/11 and the wide range of celebrations and comments on his death I have to wonder if, in the end, he actually achieved his twisted goals. Our nation seems more divided than ever between [...]