Ethics

Aristotle: Happiness is an Activity

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous because we are more capable of continuous contemplation

Written on April 24, 2022 at 3:06 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Aristotle, Classical Ethics, ethical egoism, Ethics, Happiness, hedonism, Moral philosophy, Pleasure, Seneca, Stoic, Stoicism, Virtue, virtue ethics

Are You a Psychopath?

There are a few memes/popular posts doing the rounds these days that supposedly prove whether or not you could be a psychopath. The first one is a bit of fun: “While at her own mother’s funeral, a woman meets a guy she doesn’t know. She thinks this guy is amazing — her dream man —

Written on October 25, 2021 at 6:23 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: Ethics, Psychopath, trolley dilemma, trolley problem, Woman funeral riddle

Antigone and the Ethics of Desire

Written by Claudia Hauer, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Sophocles’ play Antigone remains one of the most compelling and oft-performed of the Greek tragedies. The play was recently adapted for use in Ferguson, Missouri by Theater of War, a social justice project which uses performances of Greek tragedy to encourage communities to bridge the military-civil divide.

Written on April 21, 2021 at 9:00 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Aristotle, Classical Ethics, Ethics, Identity, Nicomachean Ethics, Sophocles

Aristotle: Happiness is an Activity

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous because we are more capable of continuous contemplation

Written on July 14, 2020 at 6:26 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Aristotle, Classical Ethics, ethical egoism, Ethics, Happiness, hedonism, Moral philosophy, Pleasure, Seneca, Stoic, Stoicism, Virtue, virtue ethics

Epicureanism: Death Does Not Concern Us

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.” ~ Epicurus, The Principal Doctrines The philosophy of the hedonists, as discussed last week, seems appealing,

Written on June 30, 2020 at 6:00 am, by Van Bryan

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Tags: Ancient Greek Moral philosophy, Cyrenaic hedonism, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Ethics, hedonism, Lucretius, Moral philosophy

Ethical Egoism: Getting What You Want

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom There are a few advantages we have going for us when we study moral philosophy. The first is that moral philosophy (also known as ethical philosophy) is immediately applicable to our lives. The second is that many of the suppositions seem to be rather easy to confirm.

Written on June 18, 2020 at 8:18 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Ancient Greek Moral philosophy, Aristotle, Asclepius, Callicles, ethical egoism, Ethics, hedonism, Moral philosophy, Plato, socrates, Sophism, Sophists