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Month: April 2024

What We Owe to Others via Moderate Virtue Ethics

April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 Dantū Vēridicus

What do we owe the manifold people in our lives? And what normative theory actualizes what is owed? I argue, most basically, for the principle of not harming, which is actualized by endorsing moderate virtue ethics. To make my case,… Read moreWhat We Owe to Others via Moderate Virtue Ethics

Education  Aristotle, natural law, virtue ethics  Leave a comment

The Printing Press and the Networked Personal Computer

April 14, 2024April 14, 2024 Dantū Vēridicus

I argue that the printing press and the networked personal computer (henceforth NPC), while both key moments in the history of technology that have some resemblance, are radically different communication networks. I first briefly explain these technologies. I then consider… Read moreThe Printing Press and the Networked Personal Computer

Technology  history, HPS, technology  Leave a comment

An Examination of Kantian Error

April 2, 2024April 15, 2024 Dantū Vēridicus

An exposition on error from Kant’s Transcendental Analytic.

Metaphysics, Philosophical Anthropology  history of philosophy, Kant, metaphysics, Psychology, the unconscious, thinking, transcendental philosophy, understanding  Leave a comment

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe

Alfred North Whitehead

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