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Tag Archives: John Stuart Mill
Back to Basics (1). Truth-telling: A Core Value
Truth-telling is a core value, and remains such despite the frequent difficulties of finding out what the truth is and then communicating it. Continue reading
Posted in analytic philosophy, Philosophy
Tagged C.S. Peirce, C.S. Pierce, censorship, censorship arguments against, core values, fallibilism, G.E. Moore, In Defense of Common Sense, John Stuart Mill, Plato Descartes Kant, Platonism, realism, Richard Rorty, theories of truth, truth, truth and reality, truth telling, truthtelling, What Should Philosophy Do?
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Modern Moral Philosophy (Part Two—Is the Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle Adequate As the Foundation for a Systematic Morality)
In Part One (two weeks ago) we surveyed such questions as: are there such things as knowable moral facts, or is morality a cultural artifact? I argued that the former claim makes better sense of what we use ethical language … Continue reading
Posted in Libertarianism, Political Economy
Tagged anarchism, anarchocapitalism, elder care, Ethics, free market competition, free trade, harm principle, homo economicus, John Stuart Mill, libertarian, libertarianism, minarchism, moral philosophy, NAP, non-aggression principle, Oligarchy, On Liberty, our actions affect others, plutocracy, plutocratic oligarchy, political economy, property rights, protectionism, Rockefeller, statism, third party problem
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Lost Generation Philosopher 