Tag: "war & peace"

The Dark Knight

Todd Walters reports on justice, rebellion and random acts of violence in Gotham City.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Films]

Pauline O’Flynn explores de Beauvoir’s argument that punishment is necessary to demonstrate that the degradation of humanity can never be ignored.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Simone de Beauvoir]

The Blood of the 3,000

Jeffrey Gordon reflects on 9/11, and sees that it didn’t wake us.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Psychology]

The Counterfeiters

Thomas Wartenberg finds that extreme circumstances can bring out a person’s true moral character.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Films]

Is War Inevitable?

Jeffrey Gordon rereads a correspondence on war between Einstein and Freud.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Paranoia]

Operation Rebirth: Captain America and the Ethics of Enhancement

Major Todd A. Burkhardt considers under what circumstances it would be morally right to bioengineer super-soldiers.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007: Pop Culture]

What Do We Mean By Security?

Mary Midgley argues that Security is not about the size of your military.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Human Futures]

No Consolation For Kalashnikov

John Forge considers the moral dilemma of the weapons designer.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Science Connections]

The Machiavelli Inquiry

Casimir Kukielka asks: What might some of history’s most famous practitioners of power politics have thought about the war in Iraq?
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Articles]

The Aquinas Inquiry

What would the medieval philosophers who developed the theory of a Just War have thought about the invasion of Iraq? Ian Dungate imagines their response.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005: Medieval Philosophy]

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