The most morally monstrous actions might work as deterrents but be unacceptable morally even to the most casual conscience.
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In order to to combat the decline of trust in civil society, we need to cultivate global citizens who are able to thrive in an increasingly diverse and globalised world.
We are not yet “post-truth”, but truth-telling remains vital in sustaining open and democratic societies.
The harassment at the Presidents Club Charity Dinner was horrible. Here are three lessons from moral philosophy on how to avoid it happening again.
We need to address the mindset that enables this mass slaughter of animals in the first place.
The Good Place is a high concept comedy about what it takes to be a good person. One of the show’s charms is the way it draws on real philosophers and philosophical dilemmas.
Australia needs to think about who gets the flu vaccine first before the next pandemic strikes and supplies run low.
Racism is again on the rise in many parts of the world. So is the dehumanisation of our enemies. What hope is there, then, for notions of a common humanity?
A philosopher argues that now is the time to figure it out, before we make the inevitable discovery of extraterrestrial life.
The film 13 Minutes dramatises an attempt by Georg Elser to assassinate Hitler in 1939, to prevent the war the Führer was preparing for. How clear-cut was the moral justification for that act?
The morality of which animals we can and can’t eat doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
The pope’s encyclical on ecology addresses all individuals who want to live with integrity – and their ability to take personal actions on global problems.
Oskar Groening has declared his moral guilt as an Auschwitz accountant. His trial, currently underway, points to difficult questions about the implications of our own participation in collective activities.
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