March 30, 2011 by

Don’t panic! Remember….

Help! I’m really worried about these exams!

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March 30, 2011 by

Compare Bentham v Mill

Bentham (1748-1832) Mill (1806-1873) Empirical (measure goodness a posteriori) Hedonistic (pleasure based) Consequentialist Act utilitarian Empirical (against the intuitionists) Eudaimonistic (happiness…

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March 28, 2011 by

Extract 6: Gaia and Natural Selection

Here is Tim lenton’s conclusion to his article in Nature which James Lovelock describes as a “seminal article” (The revenge of…

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March 28, 2011 by

Can we measure happiness?

A central difficulty of utilitarian ethics is that we need to measure happiness in order to make some calculation about maximising…

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March 24, 2011 by

Start Here: Right to a child

For an excellent overview of the ethical issues with hyperlinks to further resources go to: http://www.religionlink.com/tip_100209.php For a very good general…

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March 24, 2011 by

Article: Utilitarianism and the right to a child

Do we have a right to a child? Here are some utilitarian reflections. The right to conceive is one of the…

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March 24, 2011 by

Powerpoint: Right to a Child

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March 24, 2011 by

Workbook: Right to a Child

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March 24, 2011 by

Interactive Handout: Right to a Child

Right to a Child  Key terms in vitro fertilisation artificial insemination by donor (AID) surrogacy genetic screening embryo zygote infertile 1990…

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March 22, 2011 by

Is Richard Dawkins a natural law theorist?

It is one of the paradoxes of the current atheism that its leading proponent, Richard Dawkins, argues for a kind of…

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