Tag: "ethics"

Designer Babies: Where Should We Draw the Line?

Michael Williams gazes inwards and agonizes about the prospects of a proper public debate on such matters as genetic engineering.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Books]

Euthanasia Debate (I)

Tim Chappell explains “Why Euthanasia is in Nobody’s Interest”.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Debate]

Euthanasia Debate (II)

Joachim Jung’s “Withdrawing from Life” challenges Tim Chappell.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Debate]

“If good can’t prevail”

On “No Negotiations with Terror”. By Chengde Chen.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Poetry]

Omissions & Terrorism

Ted Honderich explains why he thinks that we in the West are partly to blame for the terrorist attacks on September 11.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]

The Etiquette of Ethics, or Morality as an Affliction: the Feeling Fallacy

by Joel Marks
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Moral Moments]

The Prime Directive

A short story about ethics and the Final Frontier, by Alister Browne.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Short Story]

Why Blame the Organization? by Raymond Pfeiffer

Michael Boylan enjoys Raymond Pfeiffer’s book on collective responsibility.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Books]

Is a Philosophical Ethics Possible?

Richard Taylor explains how ethical reasoning is like travelling up an escalator, and describes the difficulties of choosing between competing systems of ethics.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]

Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz author, philosophy professor and professional skeptic, takes time out of a round-the-world lecture tour to talk to our man in Toronto, Colin Hunter.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: Interview]

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