Ethics & Morality
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi M. Ravven [Ravven, Heidi M.]

Can anyone ever engage in open-minded, non–post hoc reasoning [i.e., moral reasoning that does not consist in rationalizations after the fact] in private? Yes . . . [but that is] ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:McCance, Dawne [McCance]

Ethics of Care Carol Adams elaborates her more recent critique of rights theory in favor of a feminist “ethics of care” in the above-mentioned anthology she edited with Josephine Donovan, ...
( Category: Zoology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Gregory E. Pence

BIOLOGICAL INEQUALITY AND CLONAL DYNASTIES All of this raises a very important ethical question: Should we try to prevent the wealthy and powerful from using cloning to create biologically superior ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Keane, Webb

DISCIPLINING THE CLASH OF VOICES The clashing voices of Don Gabriel all inhabit a single monologue. We can’t know for sure how consciously artful or not his performance is—it is ...
( Category: General April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Daniel Klein [Klein, Daniel]

INFORMAL CHANNELS OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING The housing development where I used to live has a homeowners association that issued a monthly newsletter. In one issue, there appeared recommendations for a ...
( Category: Theory April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Robin Hard; Christopher Gill

3.17 On Providence [1] Whenever you find fault with providence, just give the matter some thought and you’ll recognize that what came about was in accordance with reason. [2] ‘Yes, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Noam Chomsky

4 | THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE: HOW DEEPLY HIDDEN? THE TITLE FOR this chapter is drawn from Hume’s observations about the man he called “the greatest and rarest genius that ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Massimo Pigliucci [Pigliucci, Massimo]

PART IV LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER 11 THE HORMONES OF LOVE You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. —ALBERT EINSTEIN THE GOD OF LOVE LIVES IN A STATE OF ...
( Category: Social Philosophy March 13,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

Under the Sign of Saturn In most of the portrait photographs he is looking down, his right hand to his face. The earliest one I know shows him in 1927—he ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Diogenes [Diogenes]

Cyrenaic Scepticism 621 So Socrates thought in this way, and after him, the school of Aristippos of Cyrene, and later that of Ariston of Chios,* sought to assert that in ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 5,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell

Postscript An interesting and painful example of the decay of quality through modern machine methods is afforded by the Scottish tweed industry. Hand-woven tweeds, universally acknowledged to be of superlative ...
( Category: Cultural March 4,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Sjöstedt-H, Peter [Sjöstedt-H, Peter]

Even if it were effectual, democracy is neither an objectively good institution. Plato argued against democracy as he considered it rule by a mob who are generally unwise and ignorant ...
( Category: Good & Evil March 3,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

IX : Deportations from the Reich—Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate Between the Wannsee Conference in January, 1942, when Eichmann felt like Pontius Pilate and washed his hands in innocence, and ...
( Category: Holocaust February 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

This interpretation is traditional insofar as it insists on the bro-kenness of the will whose inner paralysis, according to Christian or Pauline teachings, can only be healed through divine grace. ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality February 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

ANTI-STALINISM HAS become the creed of those not very large segments of the American left-wing intelligentsia whose honest interest in politics survived the severe shock of disillusion with the Russian ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality February 29,2016 )