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What to do with that Gideon Bible
So you’re traveling, and in your motel room you discover a hard-cover Bible, deposited there by the obnoxious “Gideons”. Presumably the Gideons don’t go room to room putting Bi… more →
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Schools of Ethics Compared
wrote 4 days ago: Deontological ethics Analyses the actual action. Goal: Morality is a question of adhering to a set o … more →
'The Amazing Spiderman' and The Problems of High-School Dramas.
wrote 2 weeks ago: The amazing Spiderman (2012), directed by Marc Webb, has garnered a lot of attention; from fans loya … more →
'Cause I told you once, you son of a bitch
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wrote 3 weeks ago: The Dems need some sons-of-bitches. I’ve been mulling this ever since the presidents-are-assho … more →
The Suicide's Wager
wrote 3 weeks ago: By Jin-yeong Yi In late 2006, Ludwig Minelli, a Swiss lawyer and the founder of Switzerland-based as … more →
Goodly and God-free: An Atheist's Ethics
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wrote 1 month ago: So we’re atheists, sceptics, agnostics, freethinkers; thinkers free from religious dogma and, … more →
The Butterfly Effect
wrote 1 month ago: A passing comment in the blog on Anticipation has raised some questions. The Butterfly Effect is com … more →
Review of "Our Inconsistent Ethical Instincts" by Mathew Hutson
wrote 1 month ago: Here’s the link to the original article. Thanks Nam for the heads up on this article. As one m … more →
AIG: Did they learn anything?
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wrote 1 month ago: As of 2008, the American Insurance Group, or AIG, was the United States’ second largest insura … more →
Third Party Ownership in Soccer: Fair or Foul?
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wrote 1 month ago: The world of sports has been one of the most competitive arenas for hundreds of years. Nothing defi … more →
Ethics Series Finale – 7.2 Morality: ideals and reality
wrote 1 month ago: In the Ethics Series 7.1 we loosely defined ethics as the point of view that involves taking into ac … more →
86. Harvard University online course: Justice with Michael Sandel
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wrote 1 month ago: For me, initiatives to place courses online from prestigious universities such as Harvard and Yale a … more →
Deontological and Consequentialist Ethics
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wrote 1 month ago: The question I see a lot on the internet usually goes like this in an almost accusatory way “G … more →
Positive and negative utilitarianism - two absurd versions of consequentialism
wrote 1 month ago: Utilitarianism is an ethical theory which holds that we should try to obtain “the great … more →
Situation Ethics
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wrote 1 month ago: Photo from commons.wikimedia.org Imagine the dartboard Without any bullseye Such that each da … more →
A Simple Utilitarian Argument for Higher Pleasures
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wrote 1 month ago: Arch-Utilitarian Jeremy Bentham controversially stated that “quantity of pleasure being equal, … more →
I'm done.
wrote 1 month ago: This past week left me a little frazzled so I decided to take a short road trip to visit my Mom in M … more →
A view on character and morality: Is invisibility inherently bad and corrupting?
wrote 2 months ago: The dictionary definitions ‘character’ as a “complex of mental and ethical traits” and t … more →
Nanny Slope
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wrote 2 months ago: Piers Morgan is not my favorite person in the world—not by a long shot. His rants about gun co … more →
56 - Ethics Vs. Emmas
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wrote 2 months ago: Download: Sarcast-056-Ethics_Vs._Emmas.mp3 // We tackle the big problems about what’s right an … more →
