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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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Moral Arrogance and not Understanding the Holocaust

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I have just been reading a particularly interesting posting by Michael Hauskelle r concerning Primo Levi’s attitude to the Holocaust. L...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

The Reporting of Suicide

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The topic in this posting is the reporting of suicide. My starting point is a posting in bio edge . A leading Australian newspaper rece...

Monday, 8 April 2013

Assisted Suicide and the Verbessem Brothers

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Belgian twins, Eddie and Marc Verbessem, were euthanized at Brussels University Hospital last December. The brothers had been de...

Monday, 4 March 2013

The Obese and Two Types of Shame

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Daniel Callahan calls for an “edgier” strategy in order to reduce obesity levels in the United States (1). One element of his suggeste...

Monday, 18 February 2013

Moral Character Enhancement and Moral Status

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Intuitively most people seem to believe that provided we could morally enhance people it would be a good thing to do so. After all this i...

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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Friendship, Love and Happiness

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Positive psychologists such as Haidt and Seligman stress the importance of association and friendship in making us happy. Lonely people ar...

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Does our Concept of Happiness change as we Age?

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It is generally accepted that happiness is important in our lives. However, in philosophy there is a great deal of disagreement about exa...

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