Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
To be a human being is to have interpersonal loyalties and commitments. It is unreasonable to demand that these be shunted aside in the name of impartialistic moral reasoning.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Between Psychology and Philosophy: East-West Themes and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy)
amazon.com
Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.
Iris Murdoch • The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Great Minds)
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netGerman philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer; his essays “Wisdom of Life” and “Counsels and Maxims,” although not explicitly Stoical, have a distinctly Stoical tone.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.