Alexander Pruss's Blog

Forty years ago you and your brother foughts about who would get to play with the new train. You remember the fight, but not the ...

Here is an argument: A character trait aimed at producing what is always intrinsically good is not a vice. (Premise) A tendency t...

Suppose that beauty is objective. Nonetheless when we talk of an entity's being beautiful, we are talking of it under a certain aspect. ...

Ancient pre-history is not directly relevant to the question of what medical procedures are now morally appropriate. Whether eyes...

An explanation of a true proposition essentially involving an objectively normative term uses a normative term. That people tend to get bas...

Let us assume, as is in fact the case, that fetuses are persons, and abortion is immoral and should be illegal. Let us imagine tw...

There is a popular misconception that morality does not apply to the life of the mind. The misconception comes with an argument:...

John Paul II is clearly a philosopher who has thought a lot about Marx and about themes of work and alienation that were important...

There is a myth that agape is not a unitive love because it does not seek reciprocation. This is mistaken in two ways. First, agape does...

Thinking about the unitive aspect of love makes clear one difference between an ethics of love and a consequentialist ethics of ...

Harry Frankfurt thinks that the only thing we can do is to see whether a given thing is one that we care about. Consequently, Fr...

The adage that love is blind would be a tragedy if true. For if one loves, one wants to know more about the beloved, in order to...

The Grounding Homogeneity Thesis (GHT) is not a precise claim, but a guiding principle that, ceteris paribus, we should prefer philosoph...

Everyone is an individual.

Kierkegaardian view of romantic love makes love not be based on a quality of the beloved such as her generosity, beauty, intellige...