The Solipsist Sepulchre – Ethics of Progress in a Modern World

There is a major question in the world today, and has been since Aristotle and Socrates – what is the good society ? What is the “best” way to live for large groups of human beings ? How can we know what is good and how can we debate or agree about what is good? …

The Role Of Aging In Society

Take the following situation. We discover an extremely contagious virus. It infects you and your loved ones, and quickly propagates through all of mankind. As a result, 150,000 people die every day. It kills more than twice the number killed in the holocaust every three months, and in 30 years, it will have killed 1.5 billion, …