Today’s thought experiment comes from Marcus Tullius Cicero, who considers in his book On Duties, circumstances “when utility seems to conflict with honorableness.” From our very own Dr. Newton’s translation, Cicero writes: “[I]f a good man sets out from Alexandria to...
Peter Singer, the atheist, moral philosopher, poses the following thought experiment about the moral obligation to save another human being: A man wearing a thousand dollar suit sees a child drowning in the ocean and being pulled away by the...
Yesterday’s thought experiment was about identity—once all of its parts were replaced, was the Ship of Theseus still the same ship? Today, we consider value theory and whether happiness or pleasure is really the highest good. In his book Anarchy, State,...
One afternoon, a couple of months ago I came across an advertisement for a new school concept that uses AI-based education paired with practical life skills workshops – and have been thinking about it ever since. At the AI-based school...
This week, we’ll be considering some of the great thought experiments of philosophy. We begin with the Ship of Theseus. Plutarch, in his work The Life of Theseus, recounts a debate among the philosophers over whether or not a ship that has...
At the beginning of this week, I asked why we start each day honoring our country. We considered that America is only great if she is good, that our happiness depends on humility and our liberty upon personal virtue, and...
Benjamin Franklin is often credited with saying, “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” Whether he said it or not, at first listen it would seem to be quite the patriotic sentiment of a great American. But is it? The...
James Madison noted about the American founding that “[i]n Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example … of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may,...
“An incident is told of the first American war, about an officer who set his men to fell some trees which were needed to make a bridge. There were not nearly enough men, and work was getting on very slowly....
Every morning, we start the day with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a song about our country. But why? What’s so great about America? And anyway, in a school concerned with knowledge and virtue, what does honoring our...
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