My Kidney for Your Approval

Which virtues? Whose signals?

Oct 11, 2021

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What is a good action, and who is a good person? More relevant to the real lives of human beings: Who gets to be treated as good while acting badly, and who ends up being treated badly no matter what they do?

These are the questions raised by a small interpersonal drama which blossomed into a legal dispute and now a New York Times Magazine article that h…

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A guest post by

Oliver Traldi

Graduate student in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Writing fellow at Heterodox Academy. Work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Arc Digital, and elsewhere.