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- Compassion fatigue: does the duty to care have limits?
Doctors face the same thing. I've come to think the limit is principled: if you burn out, you stop caring for anyone. So caring for yourself isn't a break from the duty to care, it's pa…
- How does Ibn Sina’s proof of the Necessary Existent avoid the infinite regress problem?
Thank you, Layla! So the argument is about the whole collection, not the length of the chain. That's far more elegant than I'd understood.
- Teaching the Euthyphro to sixteen-year-olds: what works and what doesn’t?
Show them that their own traditions argued about it. In Islamic theology this was a live debate for centuries. Broadly, the Ash'arites held that good and bad are known through revelation, while t…
- Is evolution compatible with objective morality?
Religious traditions have an answer: God could have created the evolutionary process so that it yields a moral sense that tracks moral truth. That's not science, but it's a coherent answer t…
- Markets are morally neutral tools
Organs are the case I know best. Iran has had a regulated, compensated kidney donation system since 1988, and it has reduced the waiting list. But studies of donors show most are poor, and many regret…