Recent Posts Tagged With 'philosopher'

• What We Can Learn From A Goose

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 13:27 in philosophy, ducks, geese, philosopher

  I've just been for a walk in the park. While I was there I sat for a while at one of the picnic tables, and decided to spend some time watching the geese and the ducks.Not much was happening. They were all sitting dozing or preening on the grass near...

• Ethical Relativism

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 10:35 in relativism, ethics, moral, philosopher, moral decline, moral standards, moral progress, ethical relativism

  Many people nowadays assert that the moral sense is completely subjective, that there are no absolute ethical values, that it's all purely a matter of opinion.Opponents of this view have raised a number of objections.1. We tend to judge actions by o...

• The Key Words of a Discussion

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 13:12 in beauty, God, philosophy, reality, truth, keywords, goodness, existence, philosopher

  I participate in quite a lot of forum discussions, and I really enjoy them. People there have (I think) got used to me going on about having clear definitions of key words in the discussion. Anyway, I make no apology for doing this. I'm a philosopher...