March 2020 – PHILOSOPHICAL EGGS

196. Is our culture mad? Seeing Facebook through John Berger’s Ways of Seeing

In January of 1972 BBC Two broadcasted a four episode television series called Ways of Seeing written and presented by John Berger (1926-2017). The series was subsequently adapted into the book Ways of Seeing which was published in 1973. Both… Read more ›

March 31, 2020

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, Political Theory, Truth

Facebook, John Berger, madness, Ways of Seeing

195. Utilitarianism and Evil

Classic utilitarianism, whose classic proponents were Jeremy Bentham (1789), John Stuart Mill (1861), and Henry Sidgwick (1907), is a moral theory which doesn’t consider motives and acts as having any intrinsic moral value. Rather, motives and acts can only be… Read more ›

March 27, 2020 3 Comments

Dwight Goodyear

Morality

Claudia Card, evil, utilitarianism, utilitarianism and evil

194. Marsilio Ficino on how to see life as wonderful!

It is easy to lose our sense of wonder for things around us. Of course, we may wonder when confronted with things out of the ordinary. But shouldn’t it be more common to wonder about, well, everything? Perhaps not. After… Read more ›

March 26, 2020

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, Morality, The Soul, Uncategorized

Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology, wonder

193. Coronavirus and “The Masque of the Red Death”: Poe’s Cautionary Wisdom

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 It is March 21, 2020 and the coronavirus is a pandemic threatening everyone on Earth. In my relative isolation of social distancing, I have had more time to read and I was drawn to a tale… Read more ›

March 21, 2020 1 Comment

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, Political Theory, The Soul, Truth

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196. Is our culture mad? Seeing Facebook through John Berger’s Ways of Seeing

195. Utilitarianism and Evil

194. Marsilio Ficino on how to see life as wonderful!

193. Coronavirus and “The Masque of the Red Death”: Poe’s Cautionary Wisdom