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Extract 6: David Lyons on relativism
Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence [PDF]
Read MoreExtract 6: R.M.Hare – Kant and utilitarianism
COULD KANT HAVE BEEN A UTILITARIAN? RM Hare [An extract from Sorting out ethics, ©1997 RM Hare, ISBN 0-19-823727-8 Published by…
Read MoreExtract 5: The Milgram Experiments (1961)
Reproduced in the 1979 film I as in Icarus and the 2007 documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. The experiments began in…
Read MoreEXTRACT 3 Three issues in globalisation
1. The strengthening of international institutions like the UN and the spread of internationallaw: thus to a far higher degree than…
Read MoreEXTRACT 1 Globalisation – a RC view
Globalisation Caritatis in Veritate 2009 Pope Benedict XVI 42. Sometimes globalization is viewed in fatalistic terms, as if the dynamics involved…
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…
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