Tag: "ethics"

The Good, The Bad and Theodicy

John Holroyd on the pitfalls of academic debates about God and evil.
[Issue 133 :: August/September 2019 :: Articles]

Is Attributing Evil a Cognitive Bias?

Aner Govrin argues that a common perception of evil is mistaken.
[Issue 133 :: August/September 2019 :: Articles]

An Appeal to the World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Ian Robinson has a brief look at the Dalai Lama’s brief message to the world.
[Issue 133 :: August/September 2019 :: Books]

Is Karma a Law of Nature?

It seems Matthew Gindin is destined to ask, and answer, this question.
[Issue 132 :: June/July 2019 :: West Meets East]

Ethics & Uncertainty

Michael Jordan asks how knowledge of circumstances affects our morality.
[Issue 132 :: June/July 2019 :: Articles]

Beauty versus Evil

Stuart Greenstreet asks whether we may judge a work to be artistically good even if we know it to be morally evil.
[Issue 132 :: June/July 2019 :: Articles]

News: April/May 2019

Word frequency reveals morality’s tides • Marx’s tomb vandalised • Black holes evade conceptual capture — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 131 :: April/May 2019 :: News]

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Martin Jenkins traces the life of a self-made woman.
[Issue 130 :: February/March 2019 :: Brief Lives]

Can an ‘Ought’ be Derived from an ‘Is’?

Philippa Foot says it’s super easy, barely an inconvenience.
[Issue 130 :: February/March 2019 :: Articles]

Ethics of the Future

Alexander Joy on the importance of not hurting future people.
[Issue 130 :: February/March 2019 :: Articles]

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