The Spread: and other essays on moralism and guilt

by Joel Marks

The Spread is a collection of very short essays first written for his blogs by philosopher Joel Marks. They perform two main to isolate some points made in his earlier writings for special or clarificatory or corrective treatment, and to draw out further implications and applications from two theories he has been desirism and its even more extreme form, analetheism (or letheism). Both theories are premised on moral the denial of objective value. Desirism offers an alternative ethics based on reason. Letheism pertains to the ultimate question(s): What is real? What is true? What is truth? Is truth real? Marks has definite answers to offer, the answers are wholly skeptical and subjective, and yet they are intended to provide concrete guidance for living.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Joel Marks is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Haven and a scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University. He is the regular ethics columnist for Philosophy Now magazine.