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, 20 May 2020

Coronavirus Passports

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The Covid-19 pandemic lockdown has caused great damage to the way people lead their lives and the economy. It is in the interests of b...

Friday, 1 May 2020

Locking Down the Elderly

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Julian Savulescu and James Cameron argue that a policy which locked down the elderly whilst allowing greater freedom to younger people du...

Thursday, 23 April 2020

Inner Virtue and Private Racist Thoughts

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In this posting I want to consider Nicolas Bommarito’s idea of inner moral virtue. In doing so I want to examine whether our purely pri...

Monday, 23 March 2020

Stoicism, Covid-19 and Fortitude

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The pandemic caused by the covid-19 virus raises many ethical concerns. In this posting I won’t consider these concerns directly but inst...

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Passive Aggression

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In this posting I want to investigate the harm caused by passive aggression. However there can also be some benefits of passive aggression a...

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Love me for a reason

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Love is all around us, love matters to us and we value loving and being loved, but why love matters so much to us isn’t immediately clear. I...

Thursday, 28 November 2019

Civil Discourse

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We live in a fractious age in which people are often rude to those who hold views opposed to their own. Indeed on some social platform...

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