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Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Medical Ethics and Thoroughgoing Autonomy

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In a posting on Practical Ethics Charles Foster defends dignity against “the allegation that dignity is hopelessly amorphous; feel-good phil...
Thursday, 7 April 2011

Brooks, Brudner and Justice

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In my previous posting I suggested that any society which insists on compulsory beneficence or the compulsory acceptance of beneficent care ...
Thursday, 10 March 2011

Why a Truly Flourishing Society must give Priority to respecting Autonomous Decisions over Beneficent Care

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In my previous posting I concluded that the only belief all must share in a flourishing society is that each of us should be free to do as s...
Friday, 25 February 2011

David Cameron and Social Integration

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In my last posting I suggested there is no such thing as a fully integrated society. I further suggested we would be better employed in cons...
Thursday, 10 February 2011

Soldiers and Beta Blockers

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A large number of soldiers returning from active service in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and ...
Monday, 24 January 2011

What’s Wrong with Addiction to Video Games

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In a posting on addiction Bennett Foddy points out whilst we universally regard addiction to tobacco as bad we are more ambivalent with rega...
Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Ecological Refugees

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Cara Nine argues in that the Lockean proviso means a people who have their homeland destroyed, or made uninhabitable by ecological disaste...