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Article: Peter Singer on IVF
Peter Singer argues that the morality of embryo wastage is no different to the use of contraception or celibacy – all…
Read MoreArticle: Genetic engineering and risk of harm
The article on the link below argues that there are many risks involved in genetic engineering. The release of genetically altered…
Read MoreArticle: A utilitarian argument against embryo research
This extract from a longer article by Dieter Birnbacher (source below) argues that the preference utilitarian case for embryo research fails…
Read MoreArticle: Kant and Iraq War
Roger Scruton argues that Kant’s perpetual Peace would have supported intervention against Iraq: “the violence must be proportional to the threat,…
Read MoreExtract 7: Mill on the importance of character
Mill was deeply influenced by Aristotle. It could be argued that Mill’s definition of happiness, which embraces goals, expectations and activity,…
Read MoreFilm: INDEX
Valkyrie, Indecent Proposal, Rendition, Lord of the Flies – any more suggestions, will add scene details and background soon. PB
Read MoreArticle: Embryonic stem cells
This extract from the independent discusses a recent ruling that patents on embryonic stem cell research are immoral and illegal. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ruling-on-stemcell-patents-may-spell-end-of-research-in-europe-2275771.html…
Read MoreArticle: Norman Anderson – A Christian Response to Situationism
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/vox/vol09/ethics_anderson.pdf
Read MoreArticle: – Norman Anderson on Situationism
This extract is taken from Professor Norman Andersen’s critique of situational ethics in 9 Ethics in a Permissive Society (Fontana, London,…
Read MoreArticle: The muddle of relativism
This entry from the New World Encyclopaedia very clearly explains why and how we can classify utilitarian ethics and situation ethics…
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Religious Studies Guides – 2020
