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Compare Bentham v Mill
Bentham (1748-1832) Mill (1806-1873) Empirical (measure goodness a posteriori) Hedonistic (pleasure based) Consequentialist Act utilitarian Empirical (against the intuitionists) Eudaimonistic (happiness…
Read MoreExtract 6: Gaia and Natural Selection
Here is Tim lenton’s conclusion to his article in Nature which James Lovelock describes as a “seminal article” (The revenge of…
Read MoreArticle: Utilitarianism and the right to a child
Do we have a right to a child? Here are some utilitarian reflections. The right to conceive is one of the…
Read MoreInteractive Handout: Right to a Child
Right to a Child Key terms in vitro fertilisation artificial insemination by donor (AID) surrogacy genetic screening embryo zygote infertile 1990…
Read MoreExtract 11: Richard Dawkins on the lust to be nice
Richard Dawkins argues for an evolved natural law of niceness or altruism, an instinct like the sex drive which evokes compassion…
Read MoreExtract 5: Pope Benedict on dictatorship of relativism
Benedict XVI just before his election as Pope (April 2005), spoke of the “dictatorship of relativism”. How many winds of doctrine…
Read MoreExtract 3: Lawrence of Arabia
This extract recounts Lawrence’s experience during the Arab revolt against Turkish occupation in Palestine in 1916. Lawrence had been sent to…
Read MoreExtract 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…
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