Ethics

On Natural Morality and Religious Amoralism [Theist vs. Atheist series]

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[This column is a part of the Theist vs. Atheist debate series between Stephen Hicks and John C. Wright. Here Hicks responds to Wright’s column about whether religion is essential to ethics.] In my judgment, issues of morality are the most difficult in philosophy. They are intellectually challenging, as everything about the human condition is […]

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Cuando el Altruismo se vuelve patológico

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por Stephen Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of “When Altruism Becomes Pathological,” first published in English at EveryJoe and then translated into Portuguese at Portal Libertarianismo.] ¿Quién es más propenso a engañar? ¿Aquellos que practican deportes individuales o aquellos que practican deportes en equipo? Un experimento fascinante realizado por el profesor Sharon K. Stoll y publicado en el Chronicle of

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Lifeboat ethics: how scarcity thinking sets us at each others’ throats [The Good Life series]

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A scenario beloved of ethicists, public policy experts, and management consultants asks you to imagine yourself on a lifeboat. Built into such scenarios are powerful assumptions with life-or-death consequences, so as we work through the lifeboat scenario try to make those assumptions explicit. Here we go: You were flying over the Pacific, but bad weather

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Recent sex scandals in philosophy departments

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Sex scandals in Philosophy departments: * Miami’s Colin McGinn resigned. * Colorado’s Graeme Forbes resigned. * Yale’s Thomas Pogge is under serious investigation (thanks to Alex Tabarrok for the link). We might expect philosophers — especially those who specialize in ethics — to be more principled than the average. So Eric Schwitzgebel’s question is an

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My article published in The Wall Street Journal

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My article “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” has been published by The Wall Street Journal. Here is a snippet: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost seem like entrepreneurs

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Campus sex and the anti-sexiness of the new authoritarians [Good Life series]

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Rape is among the most horrific of crimes. Sex should be a fun and beautiful thing — but rape takes that most personal of experiences and turns it into a degradation. There is moderately good news about the number of rapes in the USA. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rape rate has

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