Freedom and Flourishing

  Everyone knows that resilience is important in coping with misfortune. However, it may be more important than I had thought. My attentio...

  Norms of Liberty is a work of political philosophy written by Douglas B Rasmussen and Douglas J Den Uyl, and published in 2005. The blu...

  This illustration of the fictional island of Utopia was apparently in the first edition of Thomas More’s book, Utopia , published in 1516...

  When you think of dialectical approaches the idea that may come to mind is thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis. As suggested in the sentenc...

This essay focuses mainly on the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas, who will be 95 years old tomorrow, developed a theory of c...

  In the most popular post on my blog, written in 2009, I asked: What are the characteristics of a good society? I began the post by sugges...

  David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...

  Some readers will be wondering what the question means. What is this daimon? How does it relate to eudaimonia? How can you identify your d...

  I have read a great deal of the fiction written by Jean Paul Sartre, but my knowledge of his philosophical works is second-hand. I read Na...