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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 [...]

Posted 26 July 2010 Adam § , , , § Comments (0)

Moral Literacy

A review of Barbara Herman’s new book, Moral Literacy is up at the Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews. The review says that she is arguing for a Kantian Virtue Theory, which means it is required reading for me and of interest to others who read this blog. I’m not vouching for the review here because of [...]

Posted 11 September 2007 Adam § , , , , , § Comments (0)