by Dale | Aug 29, 2011 | Articles, Philosophy
In early June of 1995, I was a young Marine Cobra pilot focused on one thing – the ops plan to rescue an Air Force pilot who had been shot down over Bosnia. By the time we got to port in Trieste, Italy, the word had spread of the rescue and a clique of...
by Dale | Aug 13, 2011 | Articles, ethics, Philosophy
Sanctimonious: adjective /ˌsaNG(k)təˈmōnēəs/1. Making a show of being morally superior to other people.There’s almost nothing worse than someone, particularly evangelical preachers (although politicians are a close second), talking about the sin of others and...
by Dale | Aug 3, 2011 | Aristotle, Articles, Philosophy
Alright. So upon further review, Part 3 of this series sounds like I’m advocating nothing more than mental masturbation as the basis for a philosophy. Not so. Doing this “serialized” makes it a little more difficult to piece...
by Dale | Jul 26, 2011 | Articles, ethics, Philosophy
So, in Parts I and II, I tried (and hope I succeeded) in at least justifying the need for a “philosophy” – an integrated view of one’s own morals and ethics (i.e. which moral choices one will make when faced with competing moral...
by Dale | Jul 21, 2011 | Articles, Philosophy
Okay, so in an attempt to clarify (hopefully quickly) what I said in my first post and move this forward, I was going to use some trite phrase as a launching point and go from there: but life interceded and offered an even better illustration of my point about the...
by Dale | Jul 12, 2011 | Articles, ethics, Philosophy, Rand
I’m not sure when I first became conscious of the need for philosophy – or “a personal philosophy” – probably better termed as “ethics.” I remember joining the Marine Corps in college and being conscious of what...
