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Signs of the Times

In this article, we seek to answer why social change occurs in liberal democracies generally. We also analyze the social change currently underway in America and draw out the moral and political implications of that diagnosed social change.

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A Theory of Political Ethics

In this article, we find that the demands of political ethics, being an extension of normal ethics, are fulfilled via the promotion of virtue bounded within certain restrictions, and that these restrictions thereby require the virtue promoted to both be previously generally accepted as well as existing within the bounds of a previously understood idea of public morality.

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A Defense of Ethical Stability

In this article, we will argue certain viewpoints and attitudes must be insulated from arguments of whether they are good or bad.

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Apostasy and Paradigmatic Shifts

Paradigm shifts such as apostasy are guided not by either rationalistic arguments or completely irrational preferences but rather by people comparing the clarity which each viewpoint offers about how they ought to live.

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The Question of Liberalism

This article argues that goodness is that action which upholds one’s personal value judgments extended to the world around them.

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Clarifying Desirability in Ethics

What we desire in acting is not a particular feeling or sensation but rather the existence and continuation of thought without interruption by some outside force.

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The Ethics of Intentionality

This article will consider the usefulness and problems with both "intentional" and "habitual" actions.

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A Theory of Ethical Practice

We should not only attempt to think about applying our ethics to the real world but also to think about how we can make our ethics practicable...This will be what we focus on in this article.

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Reconciling Capitalism and Democracy

How can the two concepts of the free market and the democratic government not only coexist with but also actively reinforce one another. 

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