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The Reign of the Psychopaths

By Steven LaTulippe The Reign of the Psychopaths One of the key traits of psychopathic personality disorder is a near-total absence of empathy. To the psychopath, other people exist as mere objects, t… more →

Jericho Rendezvous

WISDOM vs. ENJOYMENT or HOW TO START THE REVOLUTION — 1 comment

pauladkin wrote 5 days ago: In his book “Tarrying with the Negative” Slavoj Žižek makes a very lucid association between enjoyme … more →

Tags: thinking the world, Philosophy, ethics, Society, capitalism, Will to Necessity, Communication, democracy, Freedom

Divorcing Morality from Metaphysics — 2 comments

Benjamin Studebaker wrote 1 week ago: Religious deontologists and subjectivist relativists have something in common–both believe tha … more →

Tags: Politics, ethics, Philosophy, Morality, Religion, Ronald Dworkin, Objectivism, David Hume, Subjectivism

WISDOM AND LAW — 5 comments

pauladkin wrote 1 week ago: “…out of what knowledge does one make law?”[1] asked Jacques Lacan. What knowledge should the System … more →

Tags: thinking the world, Abortion, demography, Ecology, Grace, knowledge, Lacan, Law, Necessity

'The Amazing Spiderman' and The Problems of High-School Dramas.

oskarmatzerath1 wrote 2 weeks ago: The amazing Spiderman (2012), directed by Marc Webb, has garnered a lot of attention; from fans loya … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Psychology, Justice, ethics, consequentialism, Comic Books, Comics, Spiderman, Superman

A Deontological Note — 2 comments

Walter wrote 3 weeks ago: You may have noticed we have started writing about commercial activities. So you may suspect we writ … more →

Morality Unpacked

Christopher wrote 3 weeks ago: In my last update I said I would post my recent essay on moral ethics. So I am. Here it is, my analy … more →

Tags: Philosophy 3, ethics, Philosophy, Morality, Morals, Utilitarianism, Virtue, Virtue Ethics, Immanuel Kant

Use It Or Lose It — 12 comments

Tongue Sandwich™ wrote 1 month ago: Kant, a kleptomaniac and a kangaroo walk into a bar… Unfortunately, I can’t remember the … more →

Tags: Philosophy, categorical imperative, duty, ethics, humanism, kant, metaphysics, Morals, Virtue

Deontology in epistemology: some confusions

Sreejith wrote 1 month ago: Linda Zagzebski1 maintains that theories in epistemology have parallels in ethics. She holds that th … more →

Tags: Epistemology, Linda Zagzebski, john greco, Rule Following, context of discovery and justification

Blue Ribbon Winner: IKEA — 2 comments

Steph wrote 1 month ago: Introduction “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” The latest “big story” plasters across newspaper hea … more →

Tags: Paper 2, Food Safety, horsemeat scandal, Ikea, Supply chain management, sustainability, traceability

Ethics Series Finale – 7.2 Morality: ideals and reality

satoshideath 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 →

Tags: circularity, ethics, individualism, Irrationality, Others, Philosophy, Rationality, Reasoning, Religion

Some thoughts on Deontology and Virtue Ethics — 1 comment

tylerjourneaux wrote 1 month ago: I was just thinking about the early modern agenda to mathematize the whole enterprise of knowledge, … more →

Tags: Apologetics, Philosophy, ethics, Canaanites, & Natural Law, Herem war, Canaanite massacre, Virtue Ethics

She's such a martyr. — 1 comment

lilaclizard wrote 1 month ago: Sitting at home one Saturday afternoon with my friends Ben & Jerry, I decided to scour Netflix f … more →

Tags: Television, ethics, Communication, Romance, Entertainment, relationship, Drama, Virtue, The Vampire Diaries

I'm done.

lilaclizard 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 →

Tags: Music, ethics, Communication, Love, breakup, relationship, Drama, Haim, BETTER OFF

Ethical Reasoning of Kenya's Electoral Coverage

noni mugo wrote 1 month ago: Independent Electoral Boundary Commission officials address the press at the Bomas of Kenya regardin … more →

Tags: Mass media, Ethics, Kenya, Elections, post-election violence, ethics, press, duty, situational ethics

A view on character and morality: Is invisibility inherently bad and corrupting?

Dom Smithies wrote 2 months ago: The dictionary definitions ‘character’ as a “complex of mental and ethical traits” and t … more →

Tags: Philosophy, ethics, Tolkien, Philosophy, Right, Wrong, corruption, character, Morality

Week 2: Ethics and CSR

sandracc wrote 2 months ago: In week 2 we address ethics and CSR. The aim of this class is to awaken you to the difficulties of b … more →

Tags: ethics, CSR, Week 2, Utilitarianism

56 - Ethics Vs. Emmas — 3 comments

tdshow wrote 2 months ago: Download: Sarcast-056-Ethics_Vs._Emmas.mp3 // We tackle the big problems about what’s right an … more →

Tags: Friends, John Stewart Mill, God, ethics, Emma Watson, Peter Singer, barry white, Morality, Morals

Idea for Filmmakers

Takezo wrote 2 months ago: Would you not go and see this movie? In a utilitarian world, a small group philosophers realize that … more →

Tags: Musing, Philosophy, kant, Movies, film, Idea, mill, Utilitarianism, Future

Moral mindsets: how remembering our past actions drives our future behaviour

Dan Jones wrote 2 months ago: We all know we should eat better, but it’s hard work to cut out saturated fats and processed sugars … more →

Tags: Research, consequentialism, Utilitarianism, moral self-image


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