July 14, 2010 by

Weblinks and reading – virtue ethics

WEBLINKS – Virtue Ethics These hyperlinks allow you to research around the world at the touch of a button, and many…

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July 13, 2010 by

Weblinks and reading

Reading: Dialogue 6 (April 1996)  has a very useful overview by Rob Cook entitled Determinism and Free Will (back copies are available…

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May 26, 2010 by

Handout: Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics This interactive handout is written by Dr Julian Dobson of Tonbridge School, Kent. The issues Environmental Ethics has been…

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March 23, 2010 by

Handout: Kant and Business Ethics

A Kantian approach to business ethics The importance of purity of motive • Kant argued that the highest good was the…

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January 30, 2010 by

CASE STUDY 2: Pfizer/ Constant Gardener film

Pfizer to pay £50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment in the case that inspired ‘The Constant Gardener’…

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January 4, 2010 by

Handout: Trafigura, Enron, Pacific Gas, RBS

Business Ethics There is little guidance on how to treat the new syllabus addition of Business Ethics, nor as to whether…

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January 4, 2010 by

Powerpoint: 2 Effects of Business Ethics

effects of business ethics cases PPT

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November 26, 2009 by

Extract 3: Determinism, Eugenics and Winesses in History

In these three extracts we have insights into how eugenics, the theory of genetic inferiority and breeding for a superior race,…

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November 21, 2009 by

Extract 6: Debate Hume with Locke

A dialogue with Locke on freedom of the will : Hume, An Essay concerning Human Understanding Locke: ‘so far as a…

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November 19, 2009 by

Debate: Hobbes v Kant

Hobbes (1588-1679) Kant (1724 -1804) Compatibilist     Libertarian Free will compatible with determinism.     Free will incompatible with determinism….

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