Alexander Pruss's Blog

The problem of heavenly freedom is the apparent tension between these two claims: The blessed in heaven are free The blessed in heaven ca...

A messy Irenaean world which leaves much to be desired and then grows in value due to our contribution has a great value. A perfectionistic...

When I hear that two options are incommensurable, I imagine things that are very different in value. But incommensurable options could also ...

Suppose we had good empirical data that people who suffer serious physical pain are typically thereby led to significant on-balance gains in...

Many Natural Law (NL) theorists center their exposition of NL around the concept of a basic good. They give lists of basic goods, such as: h...

I'll just baldly give the theory without much argument. Axiology is necessary. It's a necessary truth that friendship and knowledge ...

X and Y are weakly incommensurable iff there is a dimension of evaluation where X beats Y and a dimension of evaluation where Y beats X. X a...

Suppose Curley is deciding whether to accept a $1,000,000 bribe and lose his soul, or remain honest. It seems quite possible to have situat...

Some things just aren't reasons for a choice. For instance, the fact that a portion of ice cream has an odd number of carbon ...

Let X be the set of integers, or a circle, or the real line, or Euclidean n dimensional space. Imagine a point is "uniformly...

There are three sets, A , B and C , each consisting of the same number of people, whose lives are endangered by the same sort of ...

I accept the following two claims: Every free action is done for a reason. If an action is obligatory, then I have on balance r...

Suppose I choose A over B . For me to have chosen over B , B must have been a relevant alternative. For instance, I am choosi...

Consider these plausible claims: If worlds w 1 and w 2 contain the exact same individuals, and each individual in w 2 is better o...

Right now, I am making all sorts of choices. For instance, I just chose to write the preceding sentence. When I made that choice, it...

St. Anselm believes that the least of our sins puts us in an infinite debt to God and is infinitely bad. Anselm's own argum...