March 18, 2015 by

Revising Virtue Ethics

The aim of revision is not just to learn knowledge: we also need to practise analysis and evaluation. To this end,…

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March 12, 2015 by

Whizz Through PowerPoint: Business Ethics

Whizz Through PowerPoint: Business Ethics from Peped

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March 12, 2015 by

Whizz Through PowerPoint: Sexual Ethics

A revision powerpoint exploring issues surrounding sexual ethics with reference to the major ethical theories

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March 12, 2015 by

Whizz Through PowerPoint: Meta-ethics

A clear explanation of naturalistic and non-naturalistic meta-ethics with reference to the naturalistic fallacy, emotivism and intuitionism

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December 2, 2014 by

Article: Bentham and Singer

Bentham and Singer Emilie Dardene University of Reims In this paper I would like to compare two forms of utilitarianism: the…

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October 28, 2014 by

CASE STUDY Nicholas Winton and the virtues

In late 1938, a British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton used his holiday to take a trip to Prague after a friend…

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October 23, 2014 by

Extract 11: The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin

Tragedy of Freedom in a Commons Garrett Hardin © Science 1968 Vol 13 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full The rebuttal to the invisible hand in population…

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October 23, 2014 by

Extract 10: Evolutionary Ethics John Baird Callicott

The evolutionary origin of ethics  John Baird Callicott (in Jamieson ed A Companion to Environmental Philosophy pages 206-7) source: http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Environmental_Philosophy_Sp_09/Callicott_The_Land_Ethic.pdf The…

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October 17, 2014 by

Extract 9: A reconciliation between Anthropocentric & Non-anthropocentric Theories James Sterba

http://ocw.capilanou.ca/philosophy/phil-208-environmental-ethics/non-anthropocentric.htm Sterba attempts a kind of reconciliation between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric environmental ethics. His main point is that the most plausible…

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October 1, 2014 by

Guidelines: Right to a Child

Guidelines Right to a Child The concept ‘right to child’ can be poorly handled by students. Part of this is because…

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