Posts Tagged ‘morality’

  • All Rights Are Individual

    August 3rd, 2022 | Rights | journalpulp | 6 Comments

    The concept of justice is inseparable from the concept of rights. The words are deeply interwoven and interconnected — linguistically, legally, lexically, historically, epistemologically. The word “justice” derives from the Latin word jūstitia, which means “rightness” or “righteous.” Jūstitia in turn derives from an even deeper antecedent — and with it the idea of rights: both terms were built upon a now little-known […]

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  • Human Happiness

    March 31st, 2022 | Beauty, Metaphysics, Philosophy | journalpulp | No Comments

    Human happiness is lightness and joy. It is the light and joyful glow over the fact of being alive — of living life with energy and with zeal and enthusiasm: a buoyancy of spirit and benevolent sense of delight over the anticipation of what life, in all its strange and magical wonder, has in store. But […]

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  • What Is The Difference Between A Cynic And A Skeptic?

    February 9th, 2012 | Philosophy | journalpulp | 1 Comment

    Cynic and skeptic are often confused and often conflated, though in actuality the only thing they really have in common is that their provenance is philosophical. The difference between the cynic and the skeptic is the difference between epistemology and ethics. It is the difference between brain and body. Skepticism is an epistemological word. Cynicism […]

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