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Monthly Archives September 2010

Is Christine O’Donnell a Kantian?

For those of you who haven’t been closely following the U.S. elections, there is this person named Christine O’Donnell who won the Republican Senate primary in Delaware. Normally, people don’t follow primary elections in small states too closely, but she defeated a more moderate Delaware Republican who probably would have won the seat, possibly giving [...]

Posted 21 September 2010 Adam § , § Comments (0)

The Pirates’ Code: More like ‘guidelines’ than actual rules

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sunday, and my new post at Park University (home of the Park University Pirates), has encouraged me to have a lot more fun with this then I have in the past. In real life, of course, pirates were and are fairly repugnant low-life criminals. But I grew up [...]

Posted 18 September 2010 Adam § , , , § Comments (0)

The ethics of breaking up

We all know that breaking up is hard to do, but is it ever unethical to break up with someone? I’ve been thinking about this off and on for the last year or so (I told a friend I would write about it last October), and somewhat puzzlingly, I think the answer turns out to [...]

Posted 13 September 2010 Adam § § Comments (3)

When moral theories have bad followers

Can you judge a moral theory by the people who try to live by it? I’m not sure just off-hand if anyone has written about this (Parfit comes close at one point), but it occurred to me that one way people argue for their favorite moral theory is to argue that a competing moral theory [...]

Posted 07 September 2010 Adam § , , § Comments (0)