Aiming at the good

This paper shows how we can plausibly extend the guise of the good thesis in a way that avoids intellectualist challenge, allows animals to be included, and is consistent with the possibility of performing action under the cognition of their badness. The paper also presents some independent arguments for the plausibility of this interpretation of the thesis. To this aim, a teleological conception of practical attitudes as well as a cognitivist account of arational desires is offered.     

The problem of arbitrary requirements: an abrahamic perspective

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Some religious requirements seem genuinely arbitrary in the sense that there seem to be no sufficient explanation of why those requirements with...