Alexander Pruss's Blog

Living in harmony with nature can be understood in many ways. Here are two: Living in a way that protects and repairs non-human aspects of...

Earlier in the pandemic, I was very judgmental of students hanging around outside in groups and not respecting six-foot spacing. Fairly quic...

Theistic Natural Law (TNL) theory seems to be subject to the Euthyphro problem much as divine command theory (DCT) is. On DCT, the Euthyphro...

Thanks to Adam Myers’ insightful comments , I’ve been thinking about the ways that natural law ethics concerns natures in two ways: on the s...

Tripping while walking or acquiring an unjustified belief does not entail that we are in any way defective. It’s just not in human nature to...

Are you thinking of grad school and feeling cold? As your December days get colder and darker, you may want to reflect on the warm weather ...

One kind of harmony of nature is widely noted: laws of nature that hold at one place and time tend to hold everywhere else. This ...

Human flourishing includes a number of central goods such as friendship with God, friendship with neighbor, understanding of the world, appr...

I sent the following in an email to a former student. He knows a lot more about the subject—both first-order and second-order—than I do, a...

I wonder if human nature might not come along with a finite number of more or less flexible normative templates for love-relationships...

Christ is in heaven, with a glorified body. Glorification does not destroy what is essentially human. A glorified body, thus, h...

We take for granted that magic involves the supernatural and science does not. At the same time, we believe that there is no such...