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Rawlsian Liberalism and Its Moral Support for Gay Rights
In this paper, I will examine the various objections to same-sex marriage and homosexuality. I will include traditional moral arguments against rights to homosexual marriage and other family rights denied to homosexuals. ...
An Introduction to the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant: With Special Consideration of Transcendental Aesthetic
In the Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant attempts to resolve the problem of how it is possible for men to make synthetic a priori judgments. This was a problem which had been developing in his thinking for many years. ...
Is the Honor System the Best System?: A Philosophical Inquiry Into and Defense of the Honor System at Washington and Lee University
While the Honor System at Washington and Lee (W&L) is widely regarded as one of the most important and consequential aspects of the school by both alumni and current students, and while it is regarded as one of the most ...
Nietzsche: Genealogy and the Spirit of Moral Revaluation
Nietzsche is concerned with the lack of value that threatens the moral structure upon which man has relied for generations. He challenges us, therefore, to reflect upon our moral history in a new way. His use of a genealogy ...
Political Liberalism in Crisis: The Deep Conflict Between Sex Equality and Religious Freedom in Rawls's Political Liberalism
In "Political Liberalism, Justice, and Gender," Susan Moller Okin criticizes the account of the family presented in John Rawls's Political Liberalism. As I see it, Okin levels two distinct
charges against Rawls. [1] First, ...
Folk Psychology, Parallel Processing, the Intentional Stance, Supervenience, Multiple Realizability, and Some Hard Problems: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain
The objective of this paper is to suggest that folk psychology is the most deeply entrenched myth in the history of the human race. Yet, it appears that -- considered as a theory of how the mind works -- we have ample ...
Modesty and excess in the philosophical critique of the idea of public justification
This essay is the outcome of personal reflection on procedural rationality in politics. Finding a rational and universal principle behind a liberal doctrine has been the ambition of many philosophers who have believed in ...
Nietzsche's Overman, the Will to Power, and the Absolute Telos
Nietzsche focuses on the idea of the ideal individual as an underlying and vital theme in all of his writing. He examines the question of how man should live his life in this world. His answer encompasses his critique of ...
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Utility and the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources
The current American health care system is plagued by three main factors: out of control spending, allocation inequalities and profound scarcity. For example, the United States spend above 14% of its GDP on health care as ...
The Problem of Hell for Christians
At one point or another, almost every human being has considered and questioned the possibility of the existence of some sort of higher being and of an afterlife. The Christian faith teaches that there exists such a being, ...