About the Blog

The title of this blog is (hope­fully obvi­ously) a play on words. It reflects my belief that ethics aware­ness is a nec­es­sary con­di­tion  for the Good Life. Not in some elit­ist sense — of course I do not think that peo­ple who do not take col­lege courses in phi­los­o­phy and ethics are thereby ren­dered inca­pable of lead­ing good lives. On the con­trary, it seems to me that either explic­itly or implic­itly work­ing through eth­i­cal issues -  what is valu­able, what you should do, how you should live — is a spon­ta­neous and won­der­ful fea­ture of nearly all humans’ day to day thoughts and per­sonal nar­ra­tives. But, these are Big Ques­tions, and they are tough ones. Para­dox­i­cally, giv­ing seri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion to eth­i­cal issues often seems to dimin­ish one’s con­fi­dence in the answers, rather than increas­ing it. With this in mind, I hope to shed some light on a lit­tle cor­ner of the field for my own ben­e­fit, and maybe for yours, too.

I antic­i­pate that this blog will even­tu­ally cover at least the fol­low­ing top­ics: ethics in many forms, includ­ing but not lim­ited to virtue ethics, edu­ca­tion and school reform, pol­i­tics lite, and food issues (veg­e­tar­i­an­ism, nutri­tion, slow food, etc).

I have tried blog­ging before, and failed mis­er­ably. I remain attracted to the idea of doing it, but have his­tor­i­cally lacked the time, moti­va­tion, inter­est and other nec­es­sary and/or suf­fi­cient qual­i­ties to blog successfully.

So, here I am, giv­ing it another shot. In order to reduce my chances of fail­ing again, I am writ­ing the first post…

On the Value of Blogging

I hope that focus­ing on this topic will clar­ify why on earth I am try­ing blog­ging again.

If I do man­age to keep up with this thing, I hope to revisit the topic of the value of blog­ging in the future, and I will link the posts here.

Thanks for read­ing. I wel­come your feedback.

pjsw