Tag: "ethics"

Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

Some feminists say women should forget old-fashioned ethical rules and focus on developing positive aspects of their characters. Not so, says Sarah Conly.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Feminisms]

The Right Way to Make a Left Turn

by Joel Marks
[Issue 32: June/July 2001: Moral Moments]

Moral Luck and Moral Theory

Michael Philips asks whether you have to be lucky in order to be good.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001: Articles]

Elizabeth Anscombe

by Duncan Richter
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Obituary]

Why Should I Care About Morality?

Arnold Zuboff keeps asking a dangerous question – whether anyone has any real reason to act morally. He thinks it has led him to a new basis for ethics.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Articles]

The American Death Penalty

Is George W. Bush a serial killer? Terri Murray attacks the death penalty with the help of two prisoners executed by the state – Socrates and Jesus.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Crime & Punishment]

Apt Apologies

by Joel Marks
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Moral Moments]

Necessary Illusions

Roger Caldwell on nature’s little white lies.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

The Yuck Factor

Charles Fethe on the Wisdom of Repugnance.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Articles]

Dear Socrates

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 29: October/November 2000: Dear Socrates]

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