ethics

Files exploring ethical theory — moral frameworks, virtue, consequences, rights, and the foundations of right action.

• HoP Ep 7: Sophists
• HoP Ep 8: Socrates
• HoP Ep 9: Plato’s Metaphysics
• HoP Ep 10: Plato’s Epistemology
• HoP Ep 11: Plato’s Ethics
• Trent Horn vs NotSoErudite — Christian Nationalism — divine command theory at the church-state interface; both sides DCT, disagree on whether DCT licenses state coercion
• The Objectivism Boundary — agreement is ontological (hypothetical oughts, no unchosen duties); the seam is life-vs-action, man qua man, the analytic/synthetic rejection, and egoism vs. EGT
• Objectivist Metaethics — A Call-In Specimen — an Objectivist states Rand’s metaethics straight; the caller’s stipulation-or-deduction question goes unanswered
• LiquidZulu Course 7 — Law as a Subset of Ethics — one ought with two enforcement tiers, conceded by the drowning-children principle; error as immorality
• No One May Dictate — partner choice is not for outsiders to dictate; compelled inclusion and compelled exclusion are the same claim
• Chris vs. Claude — Non-Uniqueness to Moral Grounding — Foot + Hayek + EGT as the landing; kind-level standing vs capacity; exit test for elective vs coercive arrangements
• Philippa Foot — Natural Goodness, Read Against the Vault — sourced (SEP + 1967 primary): functional core without essence; she abandoned the hypothetical-imperative view the vault holds; Sheriff ≠ trolley; not “what survives”