Tag: "ethics"

Politeness, Philosophy’s Neglected Companion

Raymond Boisvert extols an under-rated virtue.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Articles]

Animal Rights, Anthropomorphism & Traumatized Fish

Alistair Robinson examines whether animals can suffer.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Articles]

The Virtues of Self-Help

Philip Cafaro asks what virtues are prized today, and why, and finds inspiration in a place few philosophers look.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: The Virtues]

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Dear Socrates]

Darwin Meets Socrates

Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Mystic River

Our movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg says that Clint Eastwood’s recent film Mystic River is a tragedy – but in the good sense of the word.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Films]

Shock the Monkey

Confessions of a Rational Animal Liberationist by Jeremy Yunt.
[Issue 44: January/February 2004: The Issues]

We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident

by Joel Marks
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Moral Moments]

Irrefutable Ethics

Richard Taylor on the intractable beliefs people hold about how we should behave.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Articles]

Judging Saddam’s Pictures

Stuart Greenstreet on how to justify your taste in art.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Articles]

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