Revising Virtue Ethics
The aim of revision is not just to learn knowledge: we also need to practise analysis and evaluation. To this end,…
Read MoreWhizz Through PowerPoint: Business Ethics
Whizz Through PowerPoint: Business Ethics from Peped
Read MoreWhizz Through PowerPoint: Sexual Ethics
A revision powerpoint exploring issues surrounding sexual ethics with reference to the major ethical theories
Read MoreArticle: Bentham and Singer
Bentham and Singer Emilie Dardene University of Reims In this paper I would like to compare two forms of utilitarianism: the…
Read MoreCASE 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…
Read MoreExtract 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…
Read MoreExtract 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…
Read MoreExtract 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…
Read MoreGuidelines: 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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