Wooler.Scottus

This blog is concerned with most topics in applied philosophy. In particular it is concerned with autonomy, love and other emotions. comments are most welcome

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Friday, 31 July 2009

Love and Wholeheartedness

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In my previous posting I presented two arguments. Firstly I argued loving persons is not the same as loving inanimate things such as cities,...

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Love Revisited

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Love or ‘caring about’ is a constant theme of this blog. In previous postings I have discussed love in relation to keeping dogs, dissident I...

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Sport and Disability

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In western culture sportsmen and women are usually admired. In the past I held the view that, even if all sport is equally good in deliveri...

Friday, 5 June 2009

Marriage

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Historically marriage could be roughly described as a stable relationship between a man and a women lasting beyond the propagation and raisi...

Friday, 17 April 2009

Loving Relationships

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In this posting I specifically want to examine loving relationships. It is generally accepted our lives are meaningless if we don’t love ...

Monday, 30 March 2009

Terrorism, Love and Self Delusion

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Recently Irish republican dissidents have murdered two British soldiers and a policeman. It is important to combat these crimes; this of co...

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Assisted Suicide, Slippery Slopes and Empathic Caring

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This posting is in part a response to a program on BBC 1 on Sunday 25 January 2009. This program is about the death of Dr Anne Turner who ...

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