Tag: "ethics"

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]

Bernard Williams (1929-2003)

by A. W. Moore
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Obituary]

Sports and Drugs (and rock and roll?)

Jessie Burdick wonders whether it is cheating for athletes to take dietary supplements, and we ask you, the reader, to tell us what you think.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

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