The course on Ethics offered in the autumn is at a college level, so the work will be challenging and interesting. The text originally identified, Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue, begins with the problem that the variety of moral beliefs, and the difficulty of finding objective reasons to prefer one over the other, invites the conclusion… Continue reading Bulletin for Seniors (and Juniors?) Interested in Ethics
Author: Karl Oles
Seattle attorney, teacher of philosophy
Yet More About the Supreme Court’s PPACA (Obamacare) Opinion (Part 3)
Last time, we talked about whether the federal Anti-Injuction Act barred challenges to the PPACA. All nine justices were united in the view that it did not, which leads us to the question whether the “shared responsibility payment” (“SRP”) provision of the PPACA was within the power of Congress to enact. Here we do not… Continue reading Yet More About the Supreme Court’s PPACA (Obamacare) Opinion (Part 3)
Further Reasoning Re the PPACA (Obamacare) Opinion
On the Supreme Court website, you can find the docket for this case (the title is National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius), which lists all the papers filed with the Court (this word is traditionally capitalized for the Supreme Court). It’s a long list. Oral argument is a dramatic high point, but it is… Continue reading Further Reasoning Re the PPACA (Obamacare) Opinion