My post on Tolkien and ethics
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/10/28/tolkiens-establishment/ Enjoy!
Tolkien and Moral Realism
V&R develops arguments about the morality of the fashion industry using moral realism, a tradition of moral theory that holds we have access to an objective scale of discrete value tones that shape our moral judgements. Watch this space for a soon-to-appear blog post of mine over at the Law & Liberty website on Tolkien…
Wool and Distributist Ethics
This is the post promised in my quick mention previously of the wool campaign of HRH the Prince of Wales. Chapter 3 of V&R is about “feel good fashion” and mentions briefly a couple of Belgian companies trying to ensure fair dealings both with customers and suppliers. Belgium has a long tradition of business…
Adam Smith on corsets
This post is really Part II of my recent post – Why do women buy Kate Middleton’s nose? That post took up Tim Gunn’s claim both that designers have contempt for fuller figured women and that no technical reason exists why designers cannot beautifully dress their bodies. Likely Tim Gunn’s comments reflect some of…