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Tagarchief: moral principles
My top ideas of 2021
It is time to look back at 2021, to see what are my most important new insights. My two top picks for this year are both within moral philosophy. Interestingly, those two ideas have the same underlying structure. They both … Lees verder
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Tags: dictatorship, discrimination, moral principles, population ethics, rights, unwanted arbitrariness, utilitarianism
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Can we eat happy meat?
For a more recent discussion on this issue, see here. A very subtle problem in animal ethics is the case of happy meat. Most people agree that the lives of animals in factory farms are not worth living in the … Lees verder
The minimum complaint theory: the strongest moral theory? (Short summary)
The minimum complaint theory states that we should choose the options that generate the least amount of valid complaints. It is probably the strongest ethical theory in the sense that it is most preferred by everyone, is the easiest to … Lees verder
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Tags: consistency, moral principles, well-being
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Stijn Bruers, the rational ethicist 