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, 16 January 2019

Nietzsche, Sport and Suffering

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Sport is a passion for many people in the past this was mostly men but this is changing and many women enjoy sport. In this posting ...

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

What do We Mean by Hope

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In this posting I want to examine what we mean by hope. Firstly I will suggest that the traditional philosophical definition of hope is an i...

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Moral Distress and Autonomy

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In Ian McEwan’s book 'The Children’s Act' we have a clear example of moral distress. A judge has to make a decision which is in a ...

Monday, 3 September 2018

Honour in a Cosmopolitan Society

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In the western world the idea of honour seems to be becoming less important. Politicians make promises and feel no shame when they break ...

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Grief

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A robot cannot grieve. Stoics want to limit our dispositions to grieve. In this posting I want to examine grief. This examination was pr...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Germline Gene Editing and Savulescu's Procreative Beneficence Principle

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The possibility of using engineered enzymes to alter DNA means germline editing seems to be becoming a practical possibility with CRISPR...

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Why I'm not a Stoic

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I admire fortitude, detachment and many other stoic virtues but believe full blown stoicism is damaging. Let us accept that for someone livi...

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