Category: Philosophy
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Arguing Online About Ethics
by Jason Stotts Sometimes when I’m arguing about ethics online, I need to remember my Aristotle: “To examine then all the views held about happiness is superfluous, for children, sick people, and the insane all have views, but no sane person would dispute over them.” EE I.3.12b30.
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Best of 2014
by Jason Stotts Last year, 2014, was an exceptionally busy year. I worked on revising my book Eros and Ethos and my MA in Clinical Psychology. Something about full-time grad school and working full-time, in addition to working on Eros and Ethos, hasn’t left me as much time as I would have liked to write essays…
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Question: Pornography and Ayn Rand
by Jason Stotts I get a lot of interesting questions at Erosophia and I try to answer as many of them as I can. When I think the question and answer is particularly interesting, I usually publish an anonymized version of it. This is one of those. Hi Jason. What is your basic advice on using…
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Authenticity
by Jason Stotts Not long ago I came across a picture with a quote on it that stopped me cold. In case you can’t read the picture, it says: “You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.” In…
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CatalystCon Day 1 and Revelations
by Jason Stotts I’m at CatalystCon here in LA and so far it’s been interesting. I’ve met some interesting people and tomorrow the talks start. A weird thing happened, though. Twice, people have asked me what I do, since most people (it seems) here are involved in some sort of activism or related fields like…
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On Intuitionism
by Jason Stotts Note: What follows here is the first draft of a philosophical essay on intuitionism that will appear in my forthcoming book Eros and Ethos in an appendix. I’m publishing it here because I’d like feedback on it to improve the draft. Please leave your feedback below as a comment below or email me…
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Nudity Now Legal in Munich
by Jason Stotts Nudity has now been legalized in Munich Germany, which is Germany’s third largest city. The city, in what I think is a reasonable compromise, designated six different areas around the city where nudity is permitted. Additionally, the city is very tolerating of nudity and has a tradition of what they call Freikörperkultur…
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Operation Choke Point and the Erosion of Freedom
by Jason Stotts Today is the Fourth of July or American Independence Day. It’s a day when we celebrate the freedoms we have by enjoying spending time with our families, having barbecues, going to parades, and watching fireworks. It’s a day when we should be contemplating what freedom is and what it took to achieve…