Alexander Pruss's Blog

The standard trolley case is where a trolley is heading to a track with five people, and you can redirect it to a track with one person. It ...

Normally, our overt behavior has the presumption of moral permissibility: an action is morally permissible unless there is some specific rea...

Catholics believe that: The only permissible method of human reproduction is marital intercourse. Supposing we accept (1), we are led to...

The idea of a marriage engagement is kind of weird. On its face, it seems to be a promise to make a promise: the two people promise each oth...

Some ethical truths are intuitively obvious but it is hard to understand the reasons for them. For instance, sexual behavior should be, at l...

There is a deontic prohibition on killing innocent people. But in general I think there is no similar deontic prohibition on destroying comm...

Many religions that disagree on many other things treat marriage as something sacred, not just a contract. Moreover, many non-rel...