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Issues: Environmental Ethics
This useful list of issues is taken from http://gadfly.igc.org/e-ethics/Intro-ee.htm.there is also a link to a postdoctoral dissertation examining John Rawls’ theory…
Read MoreExtract 5: Caritas in Veritate (Love and Truth) 2009
The Roman Catholic Church has generally taken an anthropocentric (man-centred) view of environmental issues – arguing it is important as an…
Read MoreAdvanced Article: Aristotle v MacIntyre
MacIntyre’s Virtue Ethics was first expressed in his book After Virtue which sought to rehabilitate Aristotelean Virtue Theory in the light…
Read MoreArticle: 3 Is it impossible to apply the virtues?
In this short extract from the Stanford Encyclopaedia a leading modern virtue theorist, Rosalind Hursthouse, considers the criticism (mentioned by Louis…
Read MoreExtract 5: Aquinas on free will, rights and justice
In this short article the relationship between natural law, reason and the virtue of justice (a key virtue of the will,…
Read MoreExtract 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…
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 MoreDebate: Is the earth a living organism?
For more on Gaia go to http://www.gaiatheory.org Question: Do you consider the Earth a living organism?________________________________________A If it’s true then it…
Read MorePractise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
