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Foundation What is Enlightenment?
Michael Foucault comments on Kant’s Essay on Enlightenment. The Enlightenment which began with the Protestant revolution in the 16th century, elevates…
Read MoreStart Here: Abortion
My belief about the ethics of abortion is that it is a metaphysical question (meta, beyond, physics, the laws of science)….
Read MoreRoadmap: Abortion
Read More1.2 Sanctity Of Life: A Kantian Approach to abortion
This article by Lara Denis (Canadian Journal of Philosophy December 2007) considers two Kantian arguments against abortion: R.M.Hare's and Harry Gensler's….
Read More4.1 Singer on abortion, disability and replaceability
Here is an extract from Peter Singer's Practical Ethics. The total view treats infants as replaceable, in much the same way…
Read MoreArticle: Peter Singer on euthanasia
Peter Singer has consistently argued for euthanasia based on utilitarian criteria. Here is an extract from Practical Ethics which concludes: All…
Read MoreVideo: Michael Sandel and Kant
Michael Sandel of Harvard University teaches a course on Justice. In his course he uses the Socratic method of questioning the…
Read MoreArticle: Jim and the Indians and Jill and the runaway trolley
Here is a very clear discussion by T.Campbell of two classic utilitarian dilemmas. A runaway trolley is heading towards twenty men…
Read More3.1 Jonathan Glover on personhood
This extract is taken from a longer discussion with Professor Jim Stone on Jonathan Glover's website. Consider the second premise, that…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
