Ethics & Morality
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Singer

In the preceding section, we discussed justifiable killing of beings who have never been capable of choosing to live or die. Ending a life without consent may also be considered ...
( Category: Medical Ethics September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:J.Gensler, Harry [J.Gensler, Harry]

Here’s a less graphical version of the argument. If we’re conscientious and impartial, then: We won’t do something to another unless we believe that this act would be all right. ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Julian Baggini

Seek and you shall not find So far we have found much to say in praise of happiness, but we have also cast doubt on the idea that it is ...
( Category: Humanism September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:Michael Sandel

Markets in Life and Death Michael Rice, forty-eight, an assistant manager at a Walmart in Tilton, New Hampshire, was helping a customer carry a television to her car when he ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-08-16 | Author:Murray N. Rothbard

____________________ 1. On the crucial legal and philosophical distinction between patents and copyrights, see Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1962), vol. 2, pp. ...
( Category: Radicalism September 28,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Sam Harris

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category: Ethics September 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:James, Aaron [James, Aaron]

PSYCHOPATHS AND MORAL BLINDNESS In our proposal, the asshole is blameworthy because of a failure of seeing. But here one might object that the bare fact of having certain mistaken ...
( Category: Social Philosophy September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Michael Martin

Christian apologists might argue that these seemingly conflicting passages can be reconciled by a passage from Paul: "I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:LaFollette, Hugh

Note This essay is abridged and edited from chapter 2 of On Liberty. 36 “The Price We Pay?” Pornography and Harm Susan J. Brison Defenders of civil liberties have typically ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Gray, John [Gray, John]

MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE Looking out from the hotel balcony shortly after eight o’clock, Kerans watched the sun rise behind the dense groves of giant gymnosperms crowding over the ...
( Category: Cultural September 1,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Peter Singer

Regrettably, neither Lehrer nor Gore asked Bush what he meant by being ‘more even-handed’. Thus a chance to learn more about Bush’s ethical thinking was missed and we can only ...
( Category: Democracy August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Joshua Greene

Figure 9.13. In the famous Müller-Lyer illusion two lines of equal length appear to differ in length. In figure 9.13 the top horizontal line appears to be longer than the ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Geuss, Raymond

7 A Note on Lying It has often seemed odd to me that lying, meaning the intentional telling of what one knows to be false as the truth, has had ...
( Category: History & Surveys July 15,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

Broch believed that his theory of the earthly absolute could be applied directly to politics, and in the two chapters of the “condensed” Mass Psychology he actually, though fragmentary, did ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality July 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]

Because kindness, it turns out, is hard—it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs and expands to include … well, everything. One thing in our favor: Some of this “becoming ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects June 23,2014 )