Applied Ethics Category
Enemy of the People: A perspective on a classic
Posted on October 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Hello Ethic Nutters, I’m posting a paper of mine written during my Masters while in Linkoping, Sweden. The course was Social and Political Ethics and I was assigned the task to review the play by Henrik Ibsen “An Enemy of the People” which I didn’t know at the time held immense importance in Political Ethics. […]
Globalisation and Global Justice
Posted on October 15, 2017 Leave a Comment
In the article “The Problems of Global Justice” Thomas Nagel looks at two theories of global justice and assess their feasibility. The two theories he looks at are cosmopolitanism and the second which he dubs political conception and which is exemplified by Rawls’ theory presented in the book “The Law of Peoples”. Nagel briefly brings […]
Lecture by Bertrand Russell on Individual and Social Ethics
Posted on May 30, 2017 Leave a Comment
Following up from my last blog, I’ve stumbled upon a lecture by Bertrand Russell (part of a series of lectures) first broadcast by the BBC in 1948. It’s interesting to hear his teachings directly from him. At only a little less then 30 min, it’s interesting and definitely time well spent. To view the video, […]
Review of Jennifer Hawkins Exploitation and Developing Countries
Posted on January 16, 2016 Leave a Comment
Jennifer Hawkins in her paper on exploitation and research ethics recognizes two principles of research which are being violated in many developing countries. She refers to the first principle as the principle of standard care, and the second principle the principle of clinical equipoise. Although these two principles seem to be logically inextricable, Hawkins notices […]
Thoughts on Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”
Posted on December 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
In the article Famine, Affluence, and Morality Singer argues for the position that the entire way we look at moral issues needs to be altered. The most crucial premise in Singers argument is this: “if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we […]
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