Revitalizing the Structural Disdain for Old Age
Explore the philosophical reflections on old age, wisdom, and the marginalization of the elderly in modern society. Drawing from Plato, Aristotle, Byung-Chul Han, and Zygmunt Bauman...…
Terrorists Before the Moscow Court: The Moral Antinomy of Punishing Violence With Violence
What these recent acts of torture highlight is a disturbing political-philosophical background: the normalization of torture as a state tool and the tolerance of political violence against the individual…
What the Stoics understood as living well, in conformity with our nature
The lessons of the Stoics indicate two paths that converge in a central highway: to know ourselves fully and to exercise virtues in pursuit of a social life that, although it will…
How Can I Be a Better Person? On Virtue Ethics
By Douglas Giles In Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics. This chapter explores a variety of approaches to the question of moral virtue and what it means to be a good person. It…