Introduction After sharing my piece on ownership a couple of days ago, I have received some constructive criticism and feedback. Following that, I've decided to present further clarifications to my ideas. I realized that I didn't argue for them as effectively as I should have. The Difference between Acquisition of Ownership and Maintenance of Ownership …
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A clarification post further explaining these concepts is available here: https://nightsinaporia.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/a-clarification-and-further-examination-of-ownership/ One of my goals is to present a comprehensive alternative to capitalist systems. Today, I would like to define and engage with different ownership frameworks and demonstrate how one of them could be applied to household ownership in a non-capitalistic fashion. The Three …
Hey everyone. Following my post yesterday, I wanted to bring attention to some links from Zippy's blog which talk about some really cool stuff. Notably, some of his discussions on Liberalism as well as his Usury FAQ which is super extensive and quite informative regarding usury and the traditional Catholic viewpoint on it. Liberalism: https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/youd-better-hope-it-comes-up-heads/ …
This is a late post, and it's something that I wish I had done earlier, but alas, I had missed it. In September 2018, Zippy Catholic, a blogger who I respected immensely and who considerably helped shape my worldview, was killed in a bicycling accident. He was only 53 at the time. His name was …
It's been a while. l had a rather busy and fairly successful 2018. I hope the rest of you had an enjoyable year as well. Heading into 2019, I would like to return to this blog and engage in a set of more systematic and coherent projects. Prior to this, my posts were mostly just …
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This post is meant to begin laying down some of my basic thoughts as I take a deeper dive into ethics and trying to lay out some of my own meta-ethical thought. It will be rather short. Frequently, we hear criticisms of those whose moral compasses are "too black and white". That these people aren't …
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Introduction Ethics is a messy field, fraught with misunderstanding. In this post I'd like to discuss how we make ethical judgments, and more specifically I would like to discuss the importance of intent in those judgments. The first major doctrine defending the importance of intent is The Principle of Double Effect, which argued that there …
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Introduction This is going to be the first piece in a set of posts I have coming out regarding Freedom as a concept. In this post, I will be continuing my discussion from my deconstruction of the libertarian-authoritarian axis (which I highly suggest you read beforehand or you may be lost), and making some broader …
Introduction I would like to continue the discussion on "neutrality" as I have mentioned in previous posts, as well as discussing some implications of our modern views on neutrality. I will be discussing how neutrality informs our biases, especially our idea of "indoctrination". Returning to Neutrality In a couple previous posts, I noted: There is …
Introduction There is a post by another blogger who I respect (Zippy) that introduced (to me) the concept that "All politics are authoritarian". He obviously received some responses that attacked the idea in what one may consider a typical fashion, along the lines of "Clearly there are libertarian/authoritarian ideologies. What, is there no difference between …
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