by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ The aim of these prolegomena has been to advocate on behalf of a pluralist metaphysics, but what is a metaphysics?
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Moral Theory and Moral Life
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ A venerable strategy in arguing against theism involves the observation that the world looks exactly as you’d expect it to,
Course Notes – Plato / Aristotle / Heinlein
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ I want to do something a little different in these Course Notes. Rather than focus on a single text or
Why Virtue is Sufficient for a Life Worth Living
By Massimo Pigliucci My friend Dan Kaufman, over at the Electric Agora, has written a nice compact piece arguing that the Aristotelian view of eudaimonia
Self-Sufficiency and Human Flourishing
by Daniel A. Kaufman It is no secret that my friend and colleague, Massimo Pigliucci, is a practicing modern Stoic. Indeed, working within and promoting
This Week’s Special: On a Metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by Daniel A. Kaufman I want to talk about a certain metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It appears in a lone sentence in Book III,
