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My name is Adam Potthast and I am a philosophy professor at Park University in Kansas City, MO. I'm also the co-author of Ethics for Dummies. I tend to post mostly on ethics, Kantian ethics, politics, teaching and technology. More than you ever wanted to know can be found in the About Me section.Pages
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Monthly Archives July 2010
The occasional divergence of ethics and pursuit of the good life
In the previous post here I complained that I didn’t want to refer to ethical theories and theories of the good life using the blanket term “ethics”. One way to resist this is to insist that any worthwhile ethical theory should show how the good life and fulfilling our duties will or tend to converge. [...]
Obligations and the Good Life
Since vanishing from my blog last year, I’ve been thinking a lot of very general thoughts about what the differences are between theories of obligation or duty, like Kant’s ethical thought, and theories of the “good life”, like Aristotle’s ethical thought. In particular, I’ve been sort of annoyed at how the word “ethics” seems to [...]