Submitted by jbudziszewski on Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:00

Recently, upon re-reading George Orwell’s penetrating fable Animal Farm, I was reminded of the enormously influential utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer.  Singer is one of the founders of the Animal Rights movement.  One of his mottoes, and the title of one of his most famous essays, is “All Animals Are Equal.”

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 00:00

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, full of charm; imaginary good is tiresome and flat.  Real evil, however, is dreary, monotonous, barren.  Real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”  -- Simone Weil, Notebooks

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 00:00

“If God indeed does exist, what is the source of evil?  But if He does not exist, what is the source of good?”  -- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 1, Chapter 4