First off, I do not pay too much attention to U.S politics. Not that it is not important, it is. There is just too much information to grapple with. There is also the burden of filtering all the information you get for genuine, true and relevant information. As a liberal though, I would cast my [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Religion, Politics, and America
Posted in Moral Philosophy, tagged Moral Philosophy, politics, religion on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Debating Polygamy: A response
Posted in Ethics, tagged Ethics, Nussbaum, philosophy, Polygamy on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is my response to Martha Nussbaum’s blog post titled “Debating Polygamy” on the University of Chicago Law School blog. Please check this post out yourself here. I agree pretty much with everything she says. I want to try to expand on a few things though. First, Nussbaum makes a very important point: polygamy is [...]
The Ambiguity of the Human Condition
Posted in Ethics, Existentialism, tagged Ethics, philosophy, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir on August 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Let me start by saying that I do not know what is meant by the ‘ambiguity of the human condition’. I have reason to think, however, that it is something that one should at least think about. Simone de Beauvoir claims that at one point or another every human being will of necessity feel the [...]