Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here is an odd reason for love. Someone is doing really well, and when we come to love them, their wellbeing becomes in part our wellbeing. ...

It is said that when your friend has bad things happen, the occurrence of these bad things constitutes a loss of wellbeing for you. Not just...

Some philosophers want to ground our duty to obey God’s commands in the need to show gratitude to God for all the goods God has done for us....

There is the classic Epicurean argument that: You aren’t harmed by death when dead, since then you don’t exist, and You aren’t harmed by ...

Consider a Humean package view of rationality where: Then end of practical rationality is desire satisfaction. All the rational motivatio...

We generally think that humans have a dignity that non-human animals like dogs lack, even when the humans are so disabled that their functio...

One of the minor sadnesses of life is when you finish a work of fiction and then you miss a character from there, wishing for more inter...

Suppose we take seriously the idea that when a couple marries, an entity with moral standing—the married couple —comes into existe...

On average, severely disabled people report not being dissatisfied with life. Thus, probably, on average severely disabled people ar...

Consider these statements: Polluted air is bad for a tree. Polluted air is bad for a ladybug. Polluted air is bad for a mouse....