Jason Morganbesser Jason Morganbesser

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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Jason Morganbesser Jason Morganbesser

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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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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