January 26, 2010 by

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…

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December 31, 2009 by

Summary 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:…

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December 11, 2009 by

Case Study: Von Stauffenberg

Claus von Stauffenberg Few of us will ever find ourselves in a position to kill one to save the many: the…

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December 7, 2009 by

Article: 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…

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November 28, 2009 by

Article: 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…

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November 21, 2009 by

Strengths And Weaknesses: Natural Law

Autonomous and rational   Natural law is an autonomous, rational theory and it is wrong to say that you have to…

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November 18, 2009 by

Extract 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…

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November 6, 2009 by

Strengths And Weaknesses: Kant

Clarity   Kant’s categorical imperative generates absolute rules, with no exceptions, which are easy to follow. Kant argued that rational beings…

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October 6, 2009 by

ORIGINAL 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…

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September 21, 2009 by

EXAMPLE 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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