December 2016 – PHILOSOPHICAL EGGS

110. A Note on Understanding Art

Many think we criticize works of art to find out which ones are better than others—to discover excellence and then, in reference to some overarching standard, rank works from the best to the worst. However, this view might overvalue value… Read more ›

December 26, 2016

Dwight Goodyear

Aesthetics

Alexander Nehamas, art critique, Merit as Means, Nelson Goodman, understanding art

109. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and J.S. Mill

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer wasn’t allowed to join in those reindeer games. The games, that is, of the normal reindeer, the ones that looked like each other. He was shunned as a misfit who wasn’t worth much. After all, worth… Read more ›

December 26, 2016

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, Political Theory, Truth

Christmas 2016, J.S. Mill, On Liberty, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

108. Can the death penalty deter anyone?

It appears to be the case that people commit crimes out of passion, compulsion, or planning with reference to some desired good. Crimes of passion cannot be deterred since one doesn’t think carefully (or at all) when one commits a… Read more ›

December 11, 2016

Dwight Goodyear

Morality

death penalty

107. St. Gregory of Nyssa on the origins and nature of the soul

St. Gregory of Nyssa (335-394), in his work On the Soul and Resurrection (St. Vladmir’s Seminary Press, 1993), presents a very stimulating dialogue between two characters: Gregory and his sister Macrina. Through Macrina he argues that the existence of virtue… Read more ›

December 5, 2016

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, Morality, The Soul, Truth

chance, evil as privation, On the Soul and the Resurrection, providence, soul, St. Gregory of Nyssa

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110. A Note on Understanding Art

109. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and J.S. Mill

108. Can the death penalty deter anyone?

107. St. Gregory of Nyssa on the origins and nature of the soul