Your Single Most Non-Negotiable Issue
Allow me to take a page from the book of Russell and Rose and frame a post around a seemingly but not so stupid question: What stance on a moral issue would you least...
Category: Philosophy
When Does Someone Else’s Unethical Behavior Become My Business?
A question for discussion: assuming that not every unethical or immoral action by another person is my business, even if I am a witness to it, is there a principle I can use to...
The Ethics of Childbearing
Writing at The Stone, Christine Overall wants us to give careful ethical reflection to the question of whether to have children: If we fail to acknowledge that the decision of whether to parent or...
When Truth Serves Power
I see two reasons for being suspicious of truth claims made by authorities, be the authorities religious, political, or otherwise: first, a particular claim may not be true, and second, even if a claim...
Interpreting Faith, Suspiciously
Fellow gentleman Tod Kelly is seeking to learn how he might reconcile his lack of belief with his desire for belief, a journey for which I have much sympathy and fascination. For some time...
