Alexander Pruss's Blog

There are many times when we refrain from pursuing an intrinsic good G . We can classify these cases into two types: we refrain despite G...

Consider: Case 1: A child is drowning in a dirty pond. You can easily pull out the child. But you’ve got cuts all over your dominant arm an...

It is tempting to make the final “proportionality” condition of the Principle of Double Effect say that the overall consequences of the acti...

Consider the crucible of character theodicy, that we are permitted by God to meet with great evils in order to form a character with virtues...

Supererogatory actions are admirable but not obligatory. A sufficient, and perhaps necessary, condition for an action A to be supererogator...

Supererogation is a difficult concept for me. But there has to be such a thing. If Jones has suffered two hundred weeks of torture to ...

Here is an asymmetry between good and evil actions. It is very easy to generate cases of infinitely morally bad actions. You just ne...

The following are excerpts from my book manuscript on love, which I am now revising. Comments (whether substantive or stylistic) are welcome...

In the fall, I attended a really neat talk by Patrick Grim which reported on several computer simulation experiments by Grim. Su...

At least if I have no dependents, it would be praiseworthy, supererogatory and hence permissible to sacrifice my life to save the life of a ...