CASE STUDY: Mercy killing and two women
Robert Verkaik Independent 26.1.10 Two cases of mercy killing came to court in early 2010. Bridget Kilderdale was cleared of murder…
Read MoreSummary Sheet: Moral Relativism
Relativism– who is to say? Try this self-marking multiple choice by pressing this link: http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495502357&discipline_number=10 andrewgustafson@creighton.edu Nietzsche: God is Dead Dostoevsky:…
Read MoreCase Study: Von Stauffenberg
Claus von Stauffenberg Few of us will ever find ourselves in a position to kill one to save the many: the…
Read MoreArticle: Divine Command Theories
Divine Command Theory of Ethics Philip Quinn gives a masterful summary of Divine Command Ethics. http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/ethics/entries/theologicalethics.pdf Any ethical doctrine that makes…
Read MoreArticle: Ethics of premature baby care
The Ethics of neonatal care from The Observer January 28th 2008 Read the article below and discuss the issue: “Morally should…
Read MoreStrengths And Weaknesses: Natural Law
Autonomous and rational Natural law is an autonomous, rational theory and it is wrong to say that you have to…
Read MoreExtract 1: Brave New World and soma
David Pearce reviews Brave New World on www.huxley .net J.J. Smart produces the example of a pleasure machine in his book…
Read MoreStrengths And Weaknesses: Kant
Clarity Kant’s categorical imperative generates absolute rules, with no exceptions, which are easy to follow. Kant argued that rational beings…
Read MoreORIGINAL TEXT Summa Theologica Article 94
Aquinas’ Summa Theologica is written as a dialogue, where he answers objections from an imaginary protagonist (the Socratic Method). The key…
Read MoreEXAMPLE Pamela Weston’s final letter
From The Times, September 20, 2009 Pamela Weston explains her assisted suicide Personal account of her reasons for deciding to die…
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