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The idea is to use the blog to talk about philosophy. The focus of the blog is philosophy in relation to current events, so each time a blog post begins, it will use as its starting point an event from the news, and develop a philosophical argument f
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Moral Law as a Law of Reason
In the previous post I looked at what some philosophers say about how feelings are the ultimate determiners of our setting of aims. Some would go so far as to assert that morality itself depends on the feelings of the person making the moral judgemen...
Reason as a Motive to Action
Aristotle was of the opinion (Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6) that the aim or end of the process of willing is set only by our desires, and that reason is required to discover the means to achieve those ends. This was echoed by David Hume, who wrote, in ...
