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Dastur on Death

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

In How are We to Confront Death, Francoise Dastur gives us a framework for dealing with death. It is tripartite, with a bundle of observations under the headings Overcoming Death, Neutralizing Death and Accepting Death. … Continue reading →

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Implications of The Doctrine of Double Effect in Captain America: Civil War

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

The movie Captain America: Civil War contains a battle scene that serves as a case study on the mechanics and implications of the Doctrine of Double Effect (DoDE). The DoDE was developed to determine morally permissible responses in situations that … Continue reading →

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The Problem of Evil

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

In God and the Problem of Evil, B. C. Johnson offers arguments for and against the goodness of God, concluding that considerations of the latter surely cast Him as not all good. … Continue reading →

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Who is most affected by death?

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

Regarding the operative question, I’ll discourse on the Platonic dialog Menexenus, followed by the chapter from Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, then share my conclusions. … Continue reading →

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If Determinism Were True…

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

If determinism were true, in the radical sense that all moral choices are predetermined by hard and fast rules—on the order of the laws of physics—then free will would not exist. … Continue reading →

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Moral Circumstance or Luck as Determinants of Blameworthiness in Sentencing

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

I’ll weigh-in on whether praise or blameworthiness can be affected by moral luck based on my 43 years of experience as director of a not-for-profit serving people who are either reentrants (from prison) or in recovery (from addiction). … Continue reading →

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Arguments Against Moral Determinism

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

The premise of determinism is that, just as the physical laws of the universe prescribe all matters of cause and effect (past, present and future), by extension, morality is predetermined. We do not exercise free will, rather, we act according … Continue reading →

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Are Possible Worlds Concrete or Abstract?

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

Concretism, ala David Lewis (et al), is the view that all objects in the physical universe stand in relationship to one another in space-time, from beginning to end. The “actual world” we experience is an “indexical” of all other possible … Continue reading →

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Legal Opining: Lying versus Truthful Misleading

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

Though both are reprehensible, in my opinion, there are pragmatic instances in which lying is worse than truthful misleading. These are hinted in vernacular distinctions made between “lies” and “white lies.” In the dictionary definition, “white lies” are given to be “harmless.”  … Continue reading →

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Objections to Premise P1 in the “Experience Machine” Experiment

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Jerald Dana Cole

We consider, herein, objections to the first premise (P1) put forth in the “Experience Machine” experiment delineated by Robert Nozick in his influential treatise, Anarchy, State, and Utopia.  … Continue reading →

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