Category: “Erosophia.Blogspot”
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Homogenesis
by Jason Stotts We are our choices. Every last one of them. We are both the chooser and the results of our choices. Every choice we make, and our reasons for doing so, become our character. We are, in the purest, truest sense, beings of self-made souls and it is up to create our lives…
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Emotions in the Service of Life
by Jason Stotts Perhaps the single most important feature of emotions is that one now lost to us. Emotions have become afflictions that we bear: they are beyond reason, beyond understanding, and beyond our ability to control. Emotions do not, however, have to be this way. Emotions, proper emotions, allow us to experience the reality…
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Divine Purpose
by Jason Stotts Everyone needs something to believe in. It is a fact of human nature that we seek to know, to understand, to have meaning in our lives. We search for this meaning, some of us spending their entire lives trying to find it. We have created gods to give us meaning; we have…
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The New Atheists?
by Jason Stotts Following the marvelous essay by Greg Perkins at Noodlefood about “The New Atheists” v. D’Souza, I thought I’d chime in and write a critique of my own. For right now, I’m going to leave aside the problem that the New Atheists don’t offer anything to believe in and focus on the problem…
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The Greatest Ethical Problems
by Jason Stotts In the first chapter of my book on Sexual Ethics, I am planning to discuss a small number of great problems for philosophy. I am not going to criticize particular philosophers, but rather particular problems or conceptions of ethics that have stymied the field. Thus, for an example, the first problem I…
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Life and Values Elaborated
by Jason Stotts I recently wrote a short piece called “Life and Values” where I argued the following: 1. Values are that which contribute to one’s life; disvalues are things that harm or retard one’s life. 2. In order to say that you value X, you mean that you judge that X will improve your…
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Life and Values
by Jason Stotts 1. Values are that which contribute to one’s life; disvalues are things that harm or retard one’s life. 2. In order to say that you value X, you mean that you judge that X will improve your life. If we can find no fault with the above propositions, then it is clear…
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The Metaphysical Impossibility of god
by Jason Stotts If you grant the principle that ex nihilo, nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes) then you are necessarily atheist. No matter what other attributes you predicate of a god, the most important is that of the “creator”. Yet, if nothing can come from nothing, then this god could not have created everything:…