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Extract 2: The Ik tribe
Anthropologist Colin Turnbull (1972/1995) studied the Ik, a formerly proud nomadic people in northern Uganda whose traditional hunting lands were taken…
Read MoreExtract 4: van Inwagen Incompatibility of Free will and determinism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec24.pdf Peter van Inwagen, “The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism” PvI’s “main argument”: (note: he is an incompatibilist who maintains that…
Read MoreExtract 6: Singer and Act Utilitarianism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec16.pdf
Read MoreExtract 4: Article-thirty years of IVF
The daily telegraph reviews the story of IVF treatments which began on July 25th 1978 with the birth of Louise Brown,…
Read MoreExtract 1: Catholic Church on IVF treatment
http://www.catholicinsight.com/online/church/vatican/article_475.shtml A human being comes into existence at the moment of fertilization of an oocyte (ovum) by a sperm. This fact…
Read MoreExtract 5: Gandhi on non-violence
On April 6, 1930, after having marched 241 miles on foot from his village to the sea, Mohandas Gandhi arrived at…
Read MoreExtract 4: Tony Blair’s speech Iraq war
Tony Blair on Iraq War, March 13th 2003 (edited) In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days…
Read MoreExtract 3: Quaker Peace testimony
QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY Ask anyone, Quaker or otherwise, about the essential beliefs of the Society of Friends and chances are you…
Read MoreExtract 2: Global interfaith statement on peace
This interfaith declaration is the result of a two-year consultation among more than two hundred scholars and theologians representing the world’s…
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