Earlier this month, I argued that life and longevity are not, in and of themselves, virtues. There is nothing about life itself that is good; a good life is one that is lived productively and enjoyably. And to the extent that we live well, living well longer allows us to … Read more
In my book KineSophy: The Ethics of Human Movement (see sidebar on right) and previous articles (see The Ethics of Human Movement, Part 1 and Part 2), I proposed the following ethical precepts for human movement: A human being should be able to lift his or her own body weight … Read more
In the previous two months, I have presented arguments for why adherents of egoistic hedonism and altruism have reason to value physical fitness. In September’s article on hedonism, I argued that since fitness can help increase life expectancy, hedonists have reason to achieve some measure of fitness in order to … Read more
“I do muscular work, because I have muscles; and if I don’t use my muscles I shall become a bad-tempered sitting-addict … Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That’s why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome. In the past even a duke had to do a lot of walking, even … Read more