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Moral Principles and Human Happiness

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Moral principles should be derived from experience about what makes people happy, not from logic.
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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Polyamory in the 21st Century

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A book on the polyamorous community by a “participant observer” provides a window into a weird, confused, and growing world.
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Arsenic and the Meaning of Life

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The problem with reductionist accounts of life.
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William Brennan and the Creation of a Right to Abortion

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One man’s biography becomes the story of jurisprudence when constitutional interpretation is governed by personality and politics.
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The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles

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Responding to a review of his most recent book, Hadley Arkes asks some questions about the nature of natural law.
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The Shock of Recognition

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Newly defined and vigorously enforced rights have proliferated even as they are uprooted from any philosophic grounding.
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Ambiguity at the American Acropolis

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An exhibition by contemporary artist Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (on view through November 23rd) is a unique chance to contrast the uncertainty of our own age with the New Medievalism of the great American architect, Ralph Adams Cram.
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Arranged: Happily Wholesome in a Brooklyn World

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A recent film follows two women whose shared values offer an unexpected opportunity for friendship.
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The Ethics of Fetal Pain

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The science of fetal pain remains uncertain, but we still have a duty to avoid the possibility of inflicting undue suffering.
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Why We Can’t Help But Legislate Morality

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All legislation is moral. The sooner we recognize this fact, the better.
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A Tale of Two Plazas

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The public spaces where we live and work and relax have a real, if subtle, impact on how each of us experiences and reflects on our world.
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Intellectuals and the Masses

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Intellectuals have failed to recognize the real character of the Tea Party.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Social conservatives must understand and embrace America’s traditional economic culture before they can contribute to its renewal. Economic conservatives must expel the infection of shallow anthropology, vulgar utilitarianism, and metaphysical blindness that they picked up from progressivism in the 20th century.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles

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The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.
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Elitism and Judicial Supremacy

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Faced with an increasingly democratic political system, American elites have turned to the courts as an alternate means of enacting their political and constitutional agenda.
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Europe’s Choice on Conscience Protection

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A new resolution before Europe's leading human rights council attacks conscience and community.
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The Argument Over Pregnancy: And Why it Matters

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Accepting the “liberal” definition on pregnancy can actually help clarify the morality of contraception, abortion, and embryo adoption.
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Friendship in Foreign Policy

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Both realists and idealists should cast off cold neutrality and take up friendship’s warm embrace.
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Killing the Extremist Idea that Threatens America: Counter Fear with Freedom

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We must oppose violent extremists in part by promoting freedom of religion, both at home and abroad. Part two of two.
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The Sources of Liberal Intolerance

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Liberal intolerance is rooted in a secular disregard for the dignity of individuals, coupled with the veneration of Progress and the belief that liberal ideologies can’t win in public debate.
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Inflammatory Disrespect

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The reason to respect others' religious beliefs is not the fear that they might attack us, but rather the minimum demands of decency. This standard should apply to all religious groups.
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Distracted by the Mosque

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The controversy over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” cannot be understood apart from the history of other communities and their struggles to overcome religious intolerance. And no one should exploit such fears for quick partisan gain.
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The Mosque’s Lesson on Loyalty

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It is natural and good to have loyalty and love for one’s own.
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