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Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism (Philosophy Bites)
Click here for Roger Crisp’s excellent podcast on Bentham and Mill, explaining the hedonistic view of Bentham and Mill. Can we…
Read MoreArticle: 6: Aristotle, Covey and Modern Virtues
In discussing those who tell us today how to achieve eudaimonia, the successful life, we can start with Mary Midgley’s…
Read MoreArticle 3: A Defense of after birth abortion BMJ 1.3.12
This article by Alberto Guibilini and Francesca Minerva was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in March 2012, and provoked…
Read MoreExtract 5: Catholic Church on Genetic Engineering
Catholicism and Genetic Science from Acta Apolosticae, Pope Pius XII (1952) Genetic testing, screening, genetic counselling, and gene patenting are emerging…
Read MoreExtract 1: Bishop Robinson Honest to God
In this extract from Honest to God (pages 119-121) we can see the similarities between Robinson’s views in Honest to God…
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 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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Religious Studies Guides – 2020
