Tag: ethics

• What Remains

  

  It’s easier to inventory what would ruin a good life than to define one. It’s easier to catalog failure modes than to articulate success. It’s easier to know what we’d refuse than what we’d accept. We know the walls before we know the room. Some might say the obvious explanation is that we’re broken. Negativity…

  Michael

  Philosophy

  agency, Aquinas, conjunctions, disjunctions, emergence, ethics, Michelangelo, negative theology, subtraction, via negativa, wisdom

• Evil Proves Good

  

  The headlines make it impossible to deny that evil is real.Yet evil is never its own thing. It is only a corruption of what is good. To call something evil is to acknowledge a standard of good.Not preference. Not taste. A reality that binds us all. If evil is real, then good is more than…

  Michael

  Culture, Philosophy

  character, christianity, ethics, evil, good, moral standards, morality, natural law, objective truth, Philosophy, religion, virtue