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Meeting III · Friday 22 JANUpcoming

Can you be good in an unfair world?

Can we judge someone's moral character independently of their circumstances, power, and available choices?

The Philosophy
Schur, Part 3 · Ch. 9–13
The Tales

  1. Rumpelstiltskin

    Vol. I, No. 55Rawls · the veil of ignorance

    She pays for her father's boast. Would anyone agree to that bargain from behind the veil of ignorance?

  2. How Some Children Played at Slaughtering

    Vol. I, No. 22Moral luck

    Two very short anecdotes, cut after 1812. Unlike most of the tales, the violence isn't framed as punishment for anything. Who is to blame, and for what?

  3. The Juniper Tree

    Vol. I, No. 47Vengeance and justice

    Is vengeance justice? And what do we make of the father who eats his son without knowing it?

  4. Little Snow White

    Vol. I, No. 53Vengeance and justice

    In 1812 it's her own mother who dances to death at the wedding. Justice, or revenge with a happy ending?

  5. The Virgin Mary's Child

    Vol. I, No. 3Apology

    She won't confess until she's at the stake. What makes an apology count?

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