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Extract 11: Richard Dawkins on the lust to be nice
Richard Dawkins argues for an evolved natural law of niceness or altruism, an instinct like the sex drive which evokes compassion…
Read MoreExtract 5: Pope Benedict on dictatorship of relativism
Benedict XVI just before his election as Pope (April 2005), spoke of the “dictatorship of relativism”. How many winds of doctrine…
Read MoreExtract 3: Lawrence of Arabia
This extract recounts Lawrence’s experience during the Arab revolt against Turkish occupation in Palestine in 1916. Lawrence had been sent to…
Read MoreExtract 2: The Ik tribe
Anthropologist Colin Turnbull (1972/1995) studied the Ik, a formerly proud nomadic people in northern Uganda whose traditional hunting lands were taken…
Read MoreExtract 4: van Inwagen Incompatibility of Free will and determinism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec24.pdf Peter van Inwagen, “The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism” PvI’s “main argument”: (note: he is an incompatibilist who maintains that…
Read MoreExtract 6: Singer and Act Utilitarianism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec16.pdf
Read MoreApplying Christian Ethics
Religious Ethics – Christian Ethics Questions will ask students to apply religious ethics to practical moral problems. In practice this means…
Read MoreApplying Natural Law
Natural Law – “right reason in agreement with nature” In the OCR specification, natural law and situation ethics are applied to…
Read MoreEnvironmental ethics of nuclear meltdown
The nuclear crisis in the Japanese power plant at Fukushima raises profound environmental ethical questions about risk and how we handle…
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