Shows tagged with : Ethics

  • April 28 : The Demands of Morality
    We all want to lead a moral life. But even if we all agreed on what that would mean, we still have to to balance our own self-interest with the...
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  • February 10 : Bioethics: Myths and Realities
    Recent advances in mapping the human genome suggest a vision of the future that might fill us with equal parts hope and dread. On the one hand, the...
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  • January 20 : The Linguistics of Name-Calling
    Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can also hurt you. And language gives us surprisingly many ways to deride, hurt and demean – from a...
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  • September 16 : Why Be Moral?
    Morality tells us how we ought to behave, if we want to do the right thing. But is there a reason why we ought to be moral in the first place? Both...
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  • August 19 : The Moral Costs of Climate Change
    Global climate change confronts us not only with well-known pragmatic challenges, but also with less commonly acknowledged moral challenges. Who...
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  • March 18 : The Ethics of Torture
    According to former Vice President Cheney, practices widely regarded as torture prevented further attack on America after 9/11.  The facts are...
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  • March 04 : Epicurus and the Good Life
    Though his name is often misleadingly associated with indulgence in sensual pleasures, the philosopher Epicurus developed a far-reaching system of...
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  • January 08 : The Examined Year - 2011
    A new year offers an opportunity to reflect on significant moments of the past twelve months.  But what ideas and events that took shape over...
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  • December 18 : Is It Wrong to Wreck the Earth?
    There are too many people, doing too much damage to the ecosystem, essentially guaranteeing that future generations will have a damaged Earth, and...
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  • October 23 : Thinking Inside the Box
    Speaking to the National Association of Broadcasters in May 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously introduced the characterization of television as...
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  • May 26 : Summer Reading List 2013
    Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Heidegger's Being and Time may be a bit much to take to the beach, but there are lots of...
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  • June 02 : Gay Pride & Prejudice
    The question of gay rights has become a hot button issue, with opposition taking on the air of a moral panic and support taking on the air of a...
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    The world disclosed by the physical sciences can seem depressing. Modern physics, for example, has undermined the religious idea that the universe...
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  • June 16 : Educaton and the Culture Wars
    In contemporary democracies, the state is responsible  for providing children with an education. But parents surely have both the right and...
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  • June 23 : Nations and Borders
    One’s country of birth has a profound effect on life prospects. It's often best to go elsewhere. But moving is not always so easy. Borders and...
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  • June 30 : Whodunit: The Language of Responsibility
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    “Freedom” can mean many things, but it stands most centrally for metaphysical freedom: the human capacity to choose among options, based on one’s own...
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