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5 February 2012 - Moral Relativism = Moral Nihilism. QED.
In complicated ethical disputes, the real virtue lies not in asserting or withdrawing an ethical perspective, but in engaging with another to reconcile the discrepancies between their value systems.

18 June 2011 - Preferential Option for the Poor, Take Two
The spiritual and moral benefit to helping the poor comes from working the soup kitchen or rape crisis center. It doesn’t come from mere advocacy or from writing a check.

21 April 2011 - Obamanomics: Or, Reflections on the Redistribution of the Wealth of Others
Redistributionist policies have no serious moral foundation. Obama is promising bread and circuses for free for everyone but the small percentage of taxpayers who must foot the bill.

24 August 2010 - The Final Four Pages
Yesterday I finally finished the regrettably too-short A Short History of Ethics by Alasdair MacIntyre. The book served as a delightful survey of the major points in Western ethical thought from the pre-Socratics through Moore and Sartre. For readers interested in a solid, not-too-technical overview of how moral theory has developed over the centuries, MacIntyre’s [...]

30 April 2010 - Tax Policy & “Moral Hazard”
Picture it: It’s late December, 2010. Granny is ailing; she could pass from this life within a matter of weeks. Her children, eyeballing the substantial estate she is leaving, reflect soberly on one fact — if she dies on or before December 31, there will be no federal estate tax on her $2.5 million estate, [...]

25 April 2010 - Aesthetics as a Guide to the Applied Epistemology of Ideology
There is an essential piece of philosophy that seems to be missing from the broader public debate about ideology that, if properly understood, may improve the amount of intellectual charity in circulation amongst the chattering classes, and thereby decrease (even if slightly) the amount of ugliness in the naked public square. A small but growing [...]

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