Archive - Blog of Gumphus

The Meaning of Life is Beside the Point

It's just ethics but mushier

Aug 22 •

July 2025

Don't Live as a Utilitarian

The laws of physics won't teach you how to drive

Jul 31 •

A New Kind of Nature

The natural world is imperfect - so to strive for perfection, we must strive for the unnatural.

Jul 21 •

All Morality is Hedonism

The secret Big Ethics doesn’t want you to know

Jul 17 •

Inclinations are Volition

Responding to Florence Bacus's "Inclinations are Voluntary"

Jul 15 •

The Perfect Life

He was committed to the Good. He lived in close accordance with the concept.

Jul 13 •

A Brief Discourse on the Unthinkable

Everything there is to be said about that which cannot be thought, believed, known, or put into words

Jul 6 •

June 2025

April 2025

Sense-Certainty and Cocktails

Apr 13 •

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