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Location: London

Interests: music, ethics, the outdoors, evening walks

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Registration Date: Oct 10, 2009

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My thought is that it would depend on whether a retributive justification of punishment is valid. To deny a person of happiness on the grounds...

In my view ethical intuition is like a pointer to what we feel is right or wrong. Importantly, it may change direction at any time, in accordance with...

ben_tam64 wrote: The moral of my story is to live for yourself, and in accordance with the things that you value. That it is natural to be ratio...

The reason why the OP has claimed that happiness is the only intrinsic good is that, from a humanistic viewpoint, 'intrinsic good' here must b...

OP, one of your points might be that a Hobbesian outlook doesn't do justice to the notion that motivations for altruism and fairness are deep-seated a...


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