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Extract 1: Archbishop Williams and Pope Urban
Thursday, 26 December, 2002, 12:25 GMT – BBC Archbishop’s anti-war message Dr Rowan Williams, who leads the Anglican Church, used his…
Read MoreExtract 4: Singer on Animal Rights
If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what…
Read MoreExtract 2: Lynn White Origins of the Present Crisis
Lynn White’s essay was first published in 1967. In it she blames a certain branch of Christian Ethics for the unsustainable…
Read MoreExtract 1: Ethical Theories and the Environment
Traditional Ethical Theories and Contemporary Environmental Ethics Source: Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Although environmental ethicists often try to distance themselves from…
Read MoreExtract 3: Utilitarian Ethics and the Tragedy of the Commons
In his essay, The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin (1968) looked at what happens when humans do not limit their…
Read MoreExtract 3: Nazi Euthanasia programme
In October of 1939 amid the turmoil of the outbreak of war Hitler ordered widespread “mercy killing” of the sick and…
Read MoreExtract 2: Saviour siblings – the Gregorys
Jason and Lesley Gregory has baby Michael to save their daughter Harriet. But are saviour siblings ethical? Harriet was born with…
Read MoreExtracts 1- 4: Virtue Ethics
These four extracts have been selected to illustrate different aspects of Virtue Ethics. They relate to sections of Ethics – an…
Read MoreExtract 5: Verdict of history – David Newsome on the legacy of Utilitarianism
Paradoxes of the Utilitarian position The historian David Newsome explains the legacy, and the paradoxes, of the Utilitarian position – still…
Read MoreExtract: The selection at Auschwitz – Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1910-1987) was taken to Auschwitz in 1943 after joining the Italian partisans and being betrayed. One day whilst recovering in the…
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