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March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

Op-ed Matthew 25:40

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When I moved to the Bay Area, I lived in my ’66 split-window VW van plastered with Grateful Dead stickers. Back then, we called

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February 3, 2019

Aristotle and Action Towards Ethical Virtue

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Aristotle was most interested in discovering what was the best way a human being could be. Put another way, he wanted to figure out

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May 10, 2018January 16, 2020

Liberty, Equality, and Affinity in the Philosophy of Held, Nozick, and Rawls

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In this paper, I will argue that of the philosophers Robert Nozick, John Rawls, and Virginia Held, the political philosophy of John Rawls is

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May 10, 2018

Republican Factions and the Public Good

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In this paper, I will argue that the measures that James Madison installed into the U.S. Constitution to protect against the spirit of faction

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December 16, 2017

Nozick and the Coercive Power of the State

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Robert Nozick contends that liberty is the most important value for society when he states at the outset of his book, Anarchy State, and

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December 11, 2017

Building a Career – An Odyssey

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“Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your

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November 5, 2017November 5, 2017

Black Rock Rental is gone

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Sure, I’ll help you with your trailer question, and I still have some equipment to sell, but no more rentals. I just have my

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May 18, 2017

Women and the film “Unforgiven”

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  The 1992 film Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, has been widely acclaimed for challenging cliché themes of violence in the Western

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May 8, 2017

Brownlee’s Aspirations and Aspects of Virtue

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In “Moral Aspirations and Ideals” by Kimberley Brownlee, she asserts that ideals and aspirations are distinct moral categories. She defines an ideal as a

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May 8, 2017May 8, 2017

Normative Ethics and the Trolley Problem

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In David Edmonds’ book, Would You Kill The Fat Man, variations on a thought experiment are used to expose problems in making ethical determinations.

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