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Tsarnaev (and capital punishment, the morality of the death penalty, and equivocation)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality, Political Philosophy on February 1, 2014
The Justice Department has announced that it will seek the death penalty against the surviving Boston bomber, 20 year old, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Now seems a good time to consider the arguments for whether the death penalty is a just punishment. I recognize, of course, that the Justice Department might be pursuing the death penalty in […]
capital punishment, criminal, death, deontology, duty-based ethics, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, fundamental rights, justice, justice department, law, metaphysics of value, moral particularism, moral value, Morality, Political Philosophy, politics, punishment, rights, Robert Audi, the death penalty, The Right and the Good, Tsarnaev, value, value of life, Violence, W.D. Ross
Law and Morality (Columbia MD, gun rights, consequentialism, Kantianism, and client counseling)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality, Political Philosophy, Politics on January 26, 2014
I was responding to a very interesting comment on another blog when some new thoughts on an issue that I find myself thinking about frequently quickly materialized: the intersection and overlap of law and morality. It’s a thorny issue for me, because as a moral realist I think that there are objective moral truths and […]
Consequentialism, criminal, Ethics, good will, goodness, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, Immanuel Kant, justice, Kantianism, moral realism, Morality, Political Philosophy, politics, rightness, self-defense, sex, Violence
Columbia, Maryland (and rights, gun control, and arguments from analogy)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality, Political Philosophy, Politics on January 25, 2014
I have refrained from writing on the controversial topic of gun control but I feel now that I must address it as today’s shooting in Columbia mall is literally too close to home for me to not comment – my father goes to a new age church in Columbia, Maryland, and I have friends who […]
argument from analogy, constructivism, criminal, Ethics, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, mental illness, Michael Huemer, moral realism, Morality, Political Philosophy, politics, rights, self-defense, thought experiment, Violence
Is Surveillance by the NSA Just? (deontology, Kant, Ross, and the priority of the right)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Morality, Political Philosophy, Politics on January 18, 2014
To say that there has been a vociferous response to the continuing revelations of surveillance conducted by the NSA might be to state the facts mildly; there has been heated debate in the public sphere on the matter, culminating in a presidential address yesterday declaring that (modest) changes would be made. President Barack Obama’s remarks […]
anti-terrorism, Barack Obama, cellphone tracking, criminal, deontology, duty-based ethics, Ethics, fundamental rights, goodness, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, justice, Kant, Kantianism, law, metaethics, Morality, national security agency, NSA, obligations, paternalism, philosophy, Political Philosophy, politics, respect, rightness, rights, Snowden, surveillance, terrorism, The Right and the Good, W.D. Ross
Batman (and Kierkegaard on the suspension of ethics)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Existentialism, Morality, Movies & Television Shows on December 9, 2013
I am unashamedly a big fan of Batman; I grew up watching the PG-rated cartoons and reading innocent adaptations of the mythology (some more innocent than others — I definitely read “A Death in the Family” a little too young”), and in high school read the more mature trade paperbacks and graphic novels, an interest […]
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