Category: “A Rational Perspective”

by Jason Stotts The UNF (University of North Florida) Conference just ended as I write this – it was last night and all day today. It’s been an interesting time down here, mostly because this is the first time I’ve ever presented a philosophy paper at a conference. I must confess that I was rather…

by Jason Stotts The issue of Paternalism is a pervasive issue in both moral and political philosophy, although the issue is slightly different in each case. This essay will deal with “moral paternalism”, or more elaborately it is on the ethical ramifications of paternalistic actions between two adults, where we shall understand paternalistic actions to…

by Jason Stotts Recently I was thinking about the issue of depression and I’ve come to conclude that the fundamental aspect of depression is impotence – no, not sexual impotence (although this could certainly cause depression), but rather a kind of metaphysical impotence. By this I mean a feeling of being powerless to affect the…

by Jason Stotts Below is the second page of the UNF conference program…which happens to have someone’s name on it…somone who happens to be ME! In case you can’t tell, I’m rather excited to be presenting as an undergrad!

by Jason Stotts Tonight Allan Gotthelf gave his lecture “Love and Philosophy: Aristotelian vs. Platonic” here at DU. The lecture was amazing – everything I could have hoped for from a world-ranked Aristotelian and Objectivist. I think he did an excellent job of laying out the fundamental distinction between the two schools and showing the…

by Jason Stotts This essay took much longer than I anticipated to write and I ended up cutting out three sections that I had wanted to include just so I could finally put it online – so look for those in the future. Most of the main pieces of this essay are revisions of earlier…

by Jason Stotts So today I found out that I’m going to be travelling to Jacksonville Florida to present a paper on Aristotle’s “De Anima” at the UNF philosophy conference! Needless to say, I’m rather excited and I think this should be quite the interesting affair!