From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Oughtism and Its Cure

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

I decided to rename my blog “Is-Ought GAP: The Cure for Oughtism,” simultaneously turning separate eristic jokes by Stephan Kinsella and another libertarian on their heads.1
The following are some excerpts from two sections of one chapter of Veatch’s For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory. Veatch calls the mentality he describes [...]

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The US Post Office has got to go

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 1, 2009 @ 3:42 pm Personal News

I got a package in today. For the second time in two weeks, the third time since we’ve lived in Nebraska, and the fourth time I can remember while living in an apartment, the postman did not even bother making a first attempt at delivering the package to my door. I managed to get to [...]

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