Abolhassan Sadighi, Villanova University
“Reparations and Profiling After Ridding of Race” by Abolhassan Sadighi deals with the concept of race primarily in America, the nation that most propelled the need for race’s creation and continual usage, and first examines the history of race, determining it to be a social construct with no biological merit. Wh…
Elizabeth Giles, University of Miami
If certain theories about action are correct–ones that say that an action can be formulated as a ‘bringing about of a certain result’–is there any hope for ethicists who want to make a means/ends distinction? In this paper I will be delving into this issue on the side of applied ethicists who would like to maintain so…
Elisa Ruhl, April 26, 2003
The founding twentieth-century work of Freud, Piaget, and Kohlberg established the psychodynamic, social learning, and cognitive theories of Western moral development that have come to be accepted today (Bukatko): ultimately emphasis lies on the social interactions in the early stages of development as the principle determiner of an individual…
Jeff Sebo, Texas Christian University
In this paper, I argue that incest, one of the most categorically renounced practices in the world, might just be morally permissible after all. First, I cite two influential arguments in sexual ethics — one from Alan Goldman, the other from John Corvino — and prove that both philosophers are committed to the moral permissibil…
Anthony Skelton, University of Toronto
Winner, 2003 essay contest
Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics is widely regarded as a philosophical masterpiece. His other works, however, have a dubious reputation. Remarking on the latter, J. B. Schneewind wrote: ‘although interesting for the light they throw on his moral philosophy, [they are] too slight, too occa…
Any time a person is killed their right to life has been violated. But how far will our society go to make sure that justice is paid to the killer? Some people believe that by executing the killer, the problem is being solved. By allowing the murderer to be executed, we are really letting violence run it’s course in our legal system and in our socie…
Annie Baril, University of Arizona
From whence are our moral obligations to others derived? If we accept Thomas Nagel’s argument, some degree of altruism, some ?willingness to act in consideration of the interests of other persons?, is demanded of us, on pain of irrationality. (The Possibility of Altruism, 79) If I am properly conceiving of myself as just one individual…