Tag: "ethics"

Why Should I Be Good?

The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Question of the Month]

The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics

Stephen Anderson wonders whether talk of ethics has any substance.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Articles]

Thought For Food – Re: Veal

by Joel Marks
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Moral Moments]

Gay Adoption

Brenda Almond on why the gay adoption debate isn’t really about sexual morality.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Human Futures]

Moreel Esperanto by Paul Cliteur

Floris van den Berg takes a course in Paul Cliteur’s moral Esperanto.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Books]

After The Humans Are Gone

Eric Dietrich looks forward to the extinction of humanity.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Human Futures]

The Western as Philosophy

Revisiting the Western convinces Thomas Wartenberg that historical progress is not just a simple question of good heroically triumphing over evil.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Films]

The Usefulness of Theory

by Joel Marks
[Issue 60: March/April 2007: Moral Moments]

Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle

Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism.
[Issue 60: March/April 2007: Articles]

Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate Peter Singer

Mark Coffey puts forward five reasons to love and five reasons to loathe the man who has been called “the most influential living philosopher”.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Articles]

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