October 9, 2008 by

Extract 2: Humanae Vitae 1968

Humanae Vitae 1968  Pius VI Interpreting the Moral Law 4. This kind of question requires from the teaching authority of the…

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October 9, 2008 by

Start Here: Natural Law and the website

Start here: Natural Law Theory In its classical Greek form, Natural Law is the opposite of moral relativism – the view…

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October 7, 2008 by

Extract Thoreau on conscience

Extract: Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 62)   On the Duty of Civil Disobedience The practical reason why a majority is…

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October 5, 2008 by

Extract 2: Bernard Williams on Kant

Williams on Kant – a discussion by Martha Nusbaum Boston Review Oct/Nov 2003 Kantianism, as Williams understood it, was a theory…

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October 5, 2008 by

Extract Aquinas on conscience

Aquinas on conscience (ST I, 79)  Synderesis is a characteristic disposition rather than a power….as nature needs to implant in us…

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October 5, 2008 by

Extract Freud on conscience

Freud’s  Theory of the Unconscious   From The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Freud’s theory of the unconscious, then, is highly deterministic,…

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October 5, 2008 by

Handout: Three theories of conscience

Questioning Conscience A study of conscience crosses over between psychology and philosophy, because it raises questions about the origins and purpose…

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October 4, 2008 by

Handout: Free will and Determinism

Free Will and Determinism Issues surrounding free will and determinism often seem like spaghetti: they twist and turn in the mind…

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October 3, 2008 by

Extract 4: Roman Catholic Catechism and Natural Law (short version)

Roman Catholic Catechism and Natural Law (paragraph numbers) 1. Natural Law shows man the way to follow so as to practise…

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October 2, 2008 by

Peter Baron, author and editor (Ethics)

Hi!  Welcome to the adventure of Philosophy and Ethics. About me I have been teaching  Ethics since 2006 and Economics since…

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