Archives of Kyle Cupp
With the prospect of Star Wars jumping to a light speed joy ride beyond Lucas’s watchful eye and tight control, and with yet another gritty action-packed retelling of a classic fairy tale on the...
From Gadamer’s great Truth and Method: The pantheon of art is not a timeless present that presents itself to pure aesthetic consciousness, but the act of a mind and spirit that has collected and...
Romney started a meme with his factually questionable “Show me the women” answer to yesterday’s debate question about equal pay for men and women, but I cringed more at Obama’s poorly stated response. The...
The cannibal almost always plays the role of radical other in popular imagination: he or she is a super-creepy sociopath, a monster such as a witch or a wendigo, or a savage not fit...
Proposition: There are knowable absolute moral truths that exist independently of the mind. If true, can they be known absolutely? If not, how does one know they are absolute? If false, is moral relativism...
From Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity: It must not be forgotten that there is a concrete bond between freedom and existence; to will man free is to will there to be being,...
Today’s proposition courtesy of the eternally-recurring(ly)-misinterpreted Friedrich Nietzsche: “But everything has become: there are no eternal facts, just as there are no absolute truths. Consequently what is needed from now on is historical philosophizing,...
My front page post on the vice of lust prompted some discussion on what makes something immoral. A few commenters expressed the view that morality applies only to actions, which, if strictly true, would...
Today’s proposition comes from Gabriel Marcel: A community is only possible when beings acknowledge that they are mutually different while existing together in their differences. Was he correct? Discuss.
Questions: Are there objective criteria for determining if and when nascent life becomes a person whose life is worthy of respect? If so or if not, how do we know this? Please discuss. With...
