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Ethics
Roadmap A Priori
Kant held that the most interesting and useful varieties of human knowledge, including moral knowledge, rely upon synthetic a priori judgments, which are, in…
Read MoreRoadmap Autonomy
Source: Stanford encyclopaedia At the heart of Kant’s moral theory is the position that rational human wills are autonomous. Kant saw…
Read MoreFoundation What is Enlightenment?
Michael Foucault comments on Kant’s Essay on Enlightenment. The Enlightenment which began with the Protestant revolution in the 16th century, elevates…
Read MoreStart Here: Abortion
My belief about the ethics of abortion is that it is a metaphysical question (meta, beyond, physics, the laws of science)….
Read MoreRoadmap: Abortion
Read More1.2 Sanctity Of Life: A Kantian Approach to abortion
This article by Lara Denis (Canadian Journal of Philosophy December 2007) considers two Kantian arguments against abortion: R.M.Hare's and Harry Gensler's….
Read More4.1 Singer on abortion, disability and replaceability
Here is an extract from Peter Singer's Practical Ethics. The total view treats infants as replaceable, in much the same way…
Read MoreArticle: Peter Singer on euthanasia
Peter Singer has consistently argued for euthanasia based on utilitarian criteria. Here is an extract from Practical Ethics which concludes: All…
Read MoreVideo: Michael Sandel and Kant
Michael Sandel of Harvard University teaches a course on Justice. In his course he uses the Socratic method of questioning the…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
