Ilya MurometsinThe Good Life: Spring 2024The following are my thoughts on Chapter 5 from Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory…Some people use teleology to justify living without virtue. To these people, the ends justify the means. All actions’ functions are defined…Feb 15Feb 15
Ilya MurometsinThe Good Life: Spring 2024I find, on the whole, MacIntyre’s virtue ethics very agreeable; indeed, I was shocked to find an…One thing of note is that there is not a concrete highest good in MacIntyre’s exposition. The lack of a more definite highest good weakens…Feb 8Feb 8
Ilya MurometsinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Upon my first couple readings, my main criticism of “Human Nature is Bad” was that Xunzi did not…“People’s nature is bad. Their goodness is a matter of deliberate effort.”Feb 11Feb 11
Ilya MurometsinThe Good Life: Spring 2024There are a couple ways one could take this excerpt from Rosa.“Tolstoy’s sense of reality was until the end too devastating to be compatible with any moral ideal which he was able to construct out of…Jan 18Jan 18