by Jason Stotts Usually Tool is not one of my favorite bands – I find their songs to be overly long and not that great. However, recently I hear a song of theirs called “Disgustipated” off the Undertow album that makes a great philisiophical point. I’ve included the lyrics below, but to even half understand [...]
by Jason Stotts On the heels of an ecstatic night, Comes the familiar sting, The bitterness of betrayal. Struck from unguarded quarter, She, who should have been the ward, Instead inflicted the wound. That which had begun to bloom, Trust, Philia, Eros Shattered… What now? Must I solitarily trudge on? The bitterness of remorse. Why [...]
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by Jason Stotts When I first became an Objectivist, there was much with which I did not agree – Rand made some claims that I thought were too audacious and broad to possibly be true. I remember there was one thing she said that I thought was particularly wrong: she said that evil can only [...]
by Jason Stotts As I study the idea of Eudaimonia for my senior research, I’m struck by how this concept has been lost in our language: we do not even have a word for it in our language. You see, Eudaimonia means something like “human flourishing,” it’s the state of “happiness” that proceeds from being a [...]
by Jason Stotts 1. There is such a thing as Truth 2. Metaphysical Realism is viable 3. Epistemological Realism is viable 4. Rational Selfishness is the moral principle 5. Morality can be at once perfectly objective and also contextual with no contradiction. 6. “Happiness” is the goal of Morality 7. Most Philosophers are full of [...]
