Bernard Williams was really antsy about the failure of moral theories to consider the partial interests of subjects.

A talking picture show.

..I must do better.

A partial impartial defense of partiality.

You may have guessed that I wrote a lot in advance in order to take the pressure of what has been an incredibly busy spell.

People can't 'discuss the news' because they have a completely and utterly different conception of what the news is.

So, I read this article on Psyche which claims that all morality is reason based and the emotions don't have an impact.

It seems to me that the advantage of virtue ethics is that it enables a sense of autonomy.

A story in three parts... This is, as you may have worked out, the final installment.

A smorgasbord. A mezze tray. A mishmash.

Maybe benevolence is the green part and egoism the gold; maybe, more likely, it's the reverse.

I am writing this before heading to Oxford to begin the first module of my Masters. Why on earth am I so afraid?

A story in three parts... This is, you guessed it, the second.

Actually, not so new as really this is a reaffirmation of much that I have been writing about over the past six months.

A story in three parts... This is, obviously, the first.

Our face reading is not that good - we are prejudiced by our limited experiences of different people and we rate 'irrelevant' concepts.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu have written about the need for 'moral' enhancement before we get too carried away.

Once we can recognise that damaging structures harm us, it is in our interests not to be victims of them but to seek to fix them.

For someone like me who considers life rather like sex - it takes too damn long - the idea of extending life seems intuitively unappealing.