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Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Friday, October 20, 2017

The Ethics of Automation: Poetry and Robot Priests

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Philosophy professor Evan Selinger posted a question on Twitter yesterday about whether there are jobs that it would be unethical to au...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

What Thucydides Can Teach Us About Imperial Overreach

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My latest article, co-authored with John Kaag.  Here's a sample: "As we dwell in our golden, Athenian age of military and econom...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

College Football and Moral Education

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Lately I've been pondering the significance of college sports.  In the United States, nearly every college or university devotes signi...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Newspapers, Sports, and Healthy Societies

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Everywhere I've lived I've subscribed to the local newspaper. I do so because I think it's important to be informed about what...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

20,000: Two Stories Of Water Pollution In The Dakotas

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Two stories in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader in the past week have caught my attention.  Coincidentally, both have to do with pollution of g...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Leopold On Sport And Ethics

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“Voluntary adherence to an ethical code elevates the self-respect of the sportsman, but it should not be forgotten that voluntary disregar...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Pornography and Prayer

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A recent Wall Street Journal article talks about the way online pornography quickly develops new neural pathways that are difficult to und...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Surveillance and Virtue

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The recent news that a no-fly zone was enacted over the site of the Exxon tar sands pipeline spill in Arkansas is in line with the movemen...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

C.S. Lewis On Astro-Ethics

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The field of ethics in astrobiology and space exploration is small but growing.  Does anyone own the rights to the moon ?  Who may profit ...
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The Other Drones Problem: The Tragedy of the Unexplored Commons

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John Brennan's nomination hearings brought about a slew of articles about drone warfare.  On the one side, people like William Saletan...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The Moral Issue Of Land

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In my daily readings a while back I came upon this: "[The prince] is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property so t...
Monday, December 24, 2012

The Idolatry of Fear

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Let me start with some rough definitions: by worship I mean ascribing worth to something, to the point of making it a guide for one's...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Sorcery and Pollution

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In the Apocalypse of St John on Patmos, he writes that some will be excluded from heaven by their wickednesses. [1]  He describes them wit...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

The Ethics of Hunting

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According to the myth, Actaeon the hunter was turned into a stag and torn to pieces by his own dogs.   Many versions add that this was bec...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Taxing Mileage

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Several recent news articles have mentioned the possibility of taxing miles driven rather than (or in addition to) taxing gasoline. On th...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

How can you know that someone is contrite?

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For the last few weeks my ethics students have been studying forgiveness.  One of the persistent questions about forgiveness is whether, in ...