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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Sunday, 25 October 2009

Forgiving Polanski

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Recently Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a warrant from the USA for a rape committed in 1978. In this posting I want to use th...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Unconditional Forgiveness

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Charles Griswold argues that there are certain conditions attached to the concept of forgiveness and that one cannot truly forgive unless...

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Pornography

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Sex sells or so it would seem. In the western world we have developed a large porn industry as demonstrated by the BBC television documentar...

Friday, 4 September 2009

Why love is not just a disposition to feel empathy

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In my last two postings I have argued the love of inanimate objects may not be same as the love of persons and that loving someone might ...

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...

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