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Post Tagged 'utilitarianism'

July 16, 2025

Rebuilding Virtue: We Need an Architecture Revival

“Beauty will save the world.” With this declaration, Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot affirms his belief in the triumph of the transcendent principles of truth, beauty, and goodness. Despite the ugliness too often seen in the world and the moral corruption that corrupts the minds and acts of men, the belief that beauty is a path to salvation persists. Continue Reading...
June 30, 2014

A Cultural Case for Capitalism: Part 12 of 12 — Beyond Marxism

[Part 1 is here.] That most colossal blunder of Marxist experiments, the Soviet Union, collapsed more than twenty years ago, and yet Marxist thinking still penetrates the warp and woof of contemporary culture, so much so that it’s easy even for avowedly anti-Marxist conservatives to think from within the box of Marxism when considering the problem of cultural decay. Continue Reading...
June 02, 2014

Rationing by Rudeness

In an article in the Journal of Markets & Morality, Ryan Langrill and Virgil Henry Storr examine “The Moral Meanings of Markets.” They argue that “traditional defenses of the morality of the market tend to inadequately articulate the moral meanings of markets.” Continue Reading...
January 24, 2012

A Utilitarian Catechism

In a conversation this morning on the way into the office I complained of what I called the “tyranny of pragmatism” that characterizes the approach of many students towards their education. Continue Reading...