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October 15th, 2005

Yes, yes, I know there’s no such thing as the Nicodeman Ethics and the twelve kinds of wrongness. It’s the Nicomachean Ethics and twelve types of virtue. But I got it wrong, see? That’s the joke! Ha ha ha ha. Future Search

« Of the twelve kinds of wrongness Aristotle describes in the Nicodeman Ethics (you remember, predictive, retrospective, substantive, distributive, boneheaded, etc.), Cohen has now employed eleven.