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• The Republic — The Eternal Question of What Justice Is

  What is justice? The question Plato posed 2400 years ago still holds us. Through the allegory of the cave, the theory of forms, the tripartite soul, and the rule of philosophers, we read The Republic, the starting point

  2026-07-02 · 33 min read #philosophy#plato#politics#classics#justice

• What Is Justice — Rawls and Nozick

  If you had to design a society from behind a veil of ignorance, which principles would you choose? John Rawls and Robert Nozick gave opposite answers about justice. Following the old tension between equality and liberty,

  2026-06-21 · 61 min read #justice#philosophy#rawls#nozick#ethics

• Our Obligations to Future Generations — To Those Not Yet Born

  What do we owe to people who do not yet exist? A balanced look at Parfit non-identity problem, climate and debt, the discount-rate debate, and intergenerational justice, from several competing perspectives.

  2026-06-21 · 32 min read #ethics#future-generations#philosophy#climate#justice

• The Tyranny of Merit — Michael Sandel and the Question of Meritocracy

  Is meritocracy really fair? Starting from Michael Sandel critique of merit, this essay explores the role of luck, the hubris of winners and the humiliation of losers, credentialism, and the common good. It also gives mer

  2026-06-21 · 34 min read #meritocracy#philosophy#michael-sandel#justice#culture

• Is the Redistribution of Wealth Just?

  Is dividing wealth through taxes justice, or plunder? Taking Nozick libertarianism and Rawlsian egalitarianism as two wings, we work through the philosophical debate over property rights and distributive justice without

  2026-06-21 · 57 min read #ethics#justice#philosophy#wealth#rawls

• The Many Faces of Fairness — What Does It Mean to Be Fair

  Is it fairer to split a cake into equal pieces, or to give more to the hungrier person? This essay follows the five faces of fairness — equality, equity, need, procedure, and opportunity — through thought experiments and

  2026-06-21 · 33 min read #fairness#justice#ethics#philosophy#meritocracy

• The Ethics of Forgiveness — Is Forgiving a Duty or a Choice

  What is forgiveness, and how does it differ from reconciliation? A careful look at whether some things are unforgivable, whether justice and forgiveness collide, and what forgiveness does to the mind, from several perspe

  2026-06-21 · 25 min read #ethics#forgiveness#philosophy#psychology#reconciliation