| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ec0a7b | If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? | climate-change ethics ethics-and-moral-philosophy global-warming hard-questions nihilism | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 3f576f6 | The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable. This straitjacket psychology relates his fiction directly back to the black and white ethical world of fairy tale and fable; it is in conflict with his frequently expounded general theory of moral relativity, that good and evil are not the same thing at all times and in all places. | ethics-and-moral-philosophy good-and-evil | Angela Carter |