Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. Let me just stick to issue (1) for now. You describe “maximalism” as though there were something problematic about it. Why is maximalism about abortion problematic? Why, in particular, is it problematic in a context i…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan, the bit I said I found baffling and the bit you said you don’t find baffling seem to me to be radically different things, so that I have trouble seeing how what you said is a comment on my parenthetical. I was t…

I agree with all of that. I’ve argued that Aristotle does not restrict the scope of justice to the members of one’s own polis (in an article titled, creatively enough, ‘Aristotle and the Scope of Justice’), but that paper focuse…

In reply to Michael Brazier. I’ll give references separately, but I think Davenport’s argument has an obvious structure that doesn’t require much further empirical support. His claim is that a set of prominent corporations have suppor…

I wanted to comment on this long parenthetical. (I am incidentally baffled by Tessman’s claim that “[c]ontemporary virtue theorists tend to accept … a life that is self-assessed as a good life to actually be a good life.” (p. 78). I can’t imagine whic…

In reply to David Potts. Communitarians tend to exaggerate the unity of past societies. LikeLike

Thanks for this. I had similar concerns about her talk of “the ancient Greek idea of collective flourishing,” as though Plato and Aristotle were simply representative of Greek thought about eudaimonia, though my own thoughts were hardly ela…

Also, the ballot. ~Voting for or against right to procure an abortion in fall of 2022~ Arizona: Has a ban on abortions beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy. At that point the human fetal brain is recognizable as a mammalian brain, not yet as primate, let alone…

In reply to radgeekdotcom. Yes, this. Boycotts against corporations operating in anti-abortion states are ill-conceived because they’re not aimed at the people who could change the law. Any corporation that did yield to such boycotts would be far…