Isn't utilitarian consequentialism, the greatest happiness for the greatest number, more rational than deontological natural ethics? Why should the outcome of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number", out of infinite others, be the preferred one to any given individual? A great...
Let us say you witness a little girl being brutalized in a dark alley. Something within you would cry out that that is wrong. You wouldn't deduce from premises that it is wrong. You would just feel it. An urge would well up inside you to do something about it, even if such action would considerably...
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Human Nature in the Theogony . There are some ethical considerations for the gods themselves before the establishment of Zeus's new order discussed in History in the Theogony . Again, Ouranos was the...
There is a general traditional strategic split among anarchists between insurrectionary anarchism and pacifist anarchism. Insurrection is generally associated with either individual or public violent revolution, although if one wants to be specific it is etymologically linked closely with the concept...
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I have only been studying philosophy, formally and informally, for about a year. In this time I have come across a wealth of theories, and formulated a few of my own. This also happens to be the period in which I have become a libertarian. First I was a mixed economy-ist, and although I certainly had...