About the Blog

The title of this blog is (hope­fully obvi­ously) a play on words. It reflects my belief that well-developed moral thought 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 work­ing through moral issues — what is valu­able, what you should do, how you should live — is actu­ally a fea­ture of nearly all humans’ rou­tine delib­er­a­tions and per­sonal nar­ra­tives. But some us feel the need to do ethics explic­itly (even pro­fes­sion­ally), and this is a space for that. I hope to shed some light on a lit­tle cor­ner of ethics for my own ben­e­fit, and maybe for yours, too.

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 what­ever other qual­i­ties make some­one a suc­cess­ful blog­ger. 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

Thanks for reading.

pamela