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For questions about ethics, a branch of philosophy dealing with morality, justice, virtue, vice, good and evil.

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I want to ask whether denying objective moral truths while accepting scientific realism is a coherent philosophical position. Morality must be objective — or else something breaks. The belief in ...
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In my book ‘War Between Emotions and Thoughts’, absolute thinking births emotions that stabilize unstable logic. Does this solve self-referential paradoxes?
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Pure reason, as a formal capacity to universalize principles, can establish the logical coherence of a rule, but not its normative force. From the fact that a principle can be conceived without ...
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When we think of people with high levels of charisma, many bad examples can come to mind: charlatans, con artists, politicians we think are bad, etc... Moreover, charismatic people often have the ...
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In the standard trolley problem, one must choose between diverting a trolley to kill one person or allowing it to kill several. Consider the following variant. A trolley is headed toward a split ...
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Edit / Clarification: Based on the discussion so far, I realize my original wording focused too much on the example rather than the underlying concern. What I am really asking is whether we should ...
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I swat mosquitos - they annoy and hurt me. Some people annoy and hurt me. Can I swat them? (by swat, I imply kill) Perhaps not, but where are the lines, and who draws them? Am I wrong to swat ...
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