... choices, or life plans or as the object of maximizing calculations. For this reason, Dewey's pluralistic welfare consequentialism was rather vaguely grouped with other non-maximizing "consequentialists" such as Aristotle and David Hume. So long as ethical theories were necessarily either consequentialist or deontological, there was of course little choice. But as moral philosophers have come to recognize virtue ethics ... of his early neo-Hegelianism is his style of progressively unfolding definitions. The result can be confusing. As an early commentator once complained, "definitions make...

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... to do this we will need to develop Kierkegaard's conception of the self, and the difference between spatialized time and life time. In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is ... if they are contradictions to each other? Kierkegaard answers this question by introducing the concept of "the moment" of decision. Mark C. Taylor in his book Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship: A Study of Time and the Self describes the moment as: "In this moment, one faces one's possibilities in full recognition ....

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... to look at facts that are, like the sun, too painful for our direct gaze. Instinctively we look away. Poverty "The poverty of the poor is their ruin," says the Book of Proverbs. And the ruin is not just material. Poverty rapes and kills the spirit of the poor. We underestimate its complexity and cruelty. There are four dimensions of poverty ... strips the human spirit of its two indispensable prerequisites, the two things we cannot do without. They are, I submit, respect and hope. The opposite of respect is insult and, as Aristotle said, insult is the root of all rebellion. Respect is t...

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... with comprehension and knowing and having ideas? That also was the question Plato asked himself about 400 years before Christ. Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. Actually with them the history of Western philosophy starts. Plato wrote about many subjects, state-affairs for example. But in this context his thoughts about ideas especially are ... , writing and conversation. I love to talk about philosophy, and pay attention to what is going on in the cultural setting I live in. I can get into a mild euphoria from seeing a new book in philosophy of ...

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