Ethics Tagged Episodes

March 23, 2008

Ken and John discuss the future of philosophy with three rising stars in American philosophy:…

April 29, 2007

Freedom of speech tells us the government shouldn’t restrict the journalist.  But should anything restrict…

November 19, 2006

Back in the middle ages, people thought of children simply as little adults. Modern psychology…

July 18, 2006

What makes me who I am? Is it fair of me, or others, to take…

April 4, 2006

Aristotle’s philosophical doctrines have permeated and helped shape Western Culture in spheres as disparate as cosmology,…

January 3, 2006

Does the value of preserving our environment conflict with the development of a world community…

September 27, 2005

After World War II the Nurenberg trials and the conventions that arose out of them…

September 13, 2005

Is physician assisted suicide morally okay? What about active euthanasia for patients suffering terminal illnesses?…

August 23, 2005

What is virtue? Is virtue the key human happiness and flourishing, as the ancients held, or…

August 9, 2005

Our current way of life is unsustainable. Depletion of the ozone layer, the dwindling of…

March 1, 2005

David Hume was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant. His…

September 21, 2004

Corporations are recognized as persons in the eyes of the law. But if they are…

August 31, 2004

Is happiness a mere psychological state? And if so, what’s so important about it? Is…

July 13, 2004

Paternalism and Health: Some diseases such as Alzheimer’s inhibit our abilities to make decisions and…

May 25, 2004

Does America’s drug problem rest on confused philosophy? Ken and John discuss the philosophical issues…

May 11, 2004

We shouldn’t be mean to animals. Is that because animals have rights, like people do?…