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Showing posts with label utilitarianism. Show all posts

Showing posts with label utilitarianism. Show all posts

Monday, 15 August 2022

The Tangled Web We Weave

By Keith Tidman K ant believed, as a universal ethical principle, that lying was always morally wrong. But was he right? And how might w...

Monday, 14 February 2022

The Ethics of ‘Opt-out, Presumed-Consent’ Organ Donation

By Keith Tidman A ccording to current data, in the United States alone, some 107,000 people are now awaiting a life-saving organ transplant....

Monday, 20 January 2020

Environmental Ethics and Climate Change

Posted by Keith Tidman T he signals of a degrading environment are many and on an existential scale, imperilling the world’s ecosystems....

Monday, 9 December 2019

Is Torture Morally Defensible?

Posted by Keith Tidman F ar from being unconscionable , today one metric of how societies have universalised torture is that, accordin...

Monday, 18 November 2019

Getting the Ethics Right: Life and Death Decisions by Self-Driving Cars

Yes, the ethics of driverless cars are complicated . Image credit: Iyad Rahwan Posted by Keith Tidman I n 1967, the British phil...

Monday, 16 April 2018

'Evil': A Brief Search for Understanding

In medieval times, evil ws often personified in not-quite human forms Posted by Keith Tidman P lato may have been right in asserti...

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