The nature of truth; police interviews; eyewitnesses; delusions; magical thinking; the ethics of theft; postmodernism; social justice; ideology and Utopianism
'One more, vital, example: ethics. Philosophers enjoy arguing about whether ethics (those mind-spinningly complex phenomena) are actually objective or subjective.'
Ethics was my introduction to philosophy when I was a teenager; and I was highly influenced, for example, by Singers book 'practical ethics' in particular. Getting older, I indeed began to question the objectivity of ethics (and Singers justification of it in particular). But even if I am now undecided whether ethics is an objective or subjective philosophical endevour, I still live my life according to certain ethical guidelines that I find good, plausible, reasonable.
Wow! Really a lot of food for thought. Good essay. The footnotes were hard to see in the text, but I backtracked and found them. There must be a way of linking them.
Thank you for your comment! I'm sorry to discover that the footnotes were hard to see. I thought they looked all right, but perhaps what I see is a bit different from what you do. I'll look into it!
Quite the problem exists between me and the keyboard - but it's definitely possible to dynamically link the references within the essay - and this would help (I couldn't say how it's done though. The substack team would know). All the best, John
'One more, vital, example: ethics. Philosophers enjoy arguing about whether ethics (those mind-spinningly complex phenomena) are actually objective or subjective.'
Ethics was my introduction to philosophy when I was a teenager; and I was highly influenced, for example, by Singers book 'practical ethics' in particular. Getting older, I indeed began to question the objectivity of ethics (and Singers justification of it in particular). But even if I am now undecided whether ethics is an objective or subjective philosophical endevour, I still live my life according to certain ethical guidelines that I find good, plausible, reasonable.
Wow! Really a lot of food for thought. Good essay. The footnotes were hard to see in the text, but I backtracked and found them. There must be a way of linking them.
Thank you for your comment! I'm sorry to discover that the footnotes were hard to see. I thought they looked all right, but perhaps what I see is a bit different from what you do. I'll look into it!
Quite the problem exists between me and the keyboard - but it's definitely possible to dynamically link the references within the essay - and this would help (I couldn't say how it's done though. The substack team would know). All the best, John
I certainly have the same problem with the keyboard, John! But I'll give your suggestion a try and see what happens.