1.(Philosophy) (functioning as singular) the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it; moral philosophy. See alsometa-ethics 2.(functioning as plural) a social, religious, or civil code of behaviour considered correct, esp...
However, there are some ethical demands that seems to be satisfied only by a universal concern, one that extends to all human beings and perhaps beyond the human race. psychological hedonism, finds it hard to avoid being either obviously false or else trivially vacuous, as it becomes if it s...
And notice that the population of greater variance necessarily still dominates above some value, albeït that the value increases as the institutional thumb comes down ever harder in a misguided attempt to match the upper tails of the distribution. Only actual systemic bias can bring the number ...
For the last two weeks the only news filling the airwaves has been dump demented old Joe. This is in spite of old Joe having had the most significant presidency in the last 90 years. No one said the transition would be complete in four years. There is still much to do. The news of ...
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How should we behave in private and in public, what are our duties to others? How do these things change in a world where we run up against people with very different answers to our own? We have a very extensive range of interviews with some of the world's most eminent philosophers ...
The state of Texas had a restrictive abortion law, which dictated that only in the case of danger to the mother’s life would abortion be allowed. The restrictive state law was challenged by “Jane Roe,” who asserted that she should be able to terminate her pregnancy for personal reasons,...
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consider whether these characteristics, whatever they might be, apply to the earliest stages of human life. Although there was no generally agreed-upon answer, some philosophers presented surprisingly strong arguments to the effect that not only the embryo and thefetusbut even the newborn infant ...
Because humans do not have an ultimate end, they are free to choose how they will live. To say of people that they are compelled by their situation, their nature, or their role in life to act in a certain way is to exhibit “bad faith.” This seems to be the only term of di...