Tag: "ethics"

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]

Memoir of a Jolly Junket in Search of Bishop Butler

Joseph Butler was an 18th century clergyman who left an indelible mark on moral philosophy but isn’t as widely remembered today as he deserves. David White scoured England and Ireland for traces of the man they called The Bishop.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: Articles]

Problems of Affluence in Morality

Do we have a duty to give to charity? Kevin Smith weighs up the possible responses to an ethical dilemma we’ve all faced at one time or another.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: Articles]

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