I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.Friedrich Nietzsche 1. Introduction What is it to tell a lie? Is it always wrong to tell lies? Is it sometimes acceptable to lie, and if so, what are the conditions that make it OK? Humans have dealt with these types o...

Chapter 9. Conscience

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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into stone, is a stupidity.Friedrich Nietzsche 1. Introduction Each of us has, at one time or another, talked about our conscience. We might have been “pricked by our conscience” or our conscience might have “butted in” when it was not wanted. We might...

Chapter 12. Simulated Killing

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Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything. Technology: the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. 1. Introduction Ethics is about...

Chapter 1. Utilitarianism

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Music snobbery is the worst kind of snobbery. It forces people who like something a bit mainstream, a bit of pop like Girls Aloud or Take That! or ABBA to say “It’s my guilty pleasure!” I hate that phrase. It is an insult to top quality pop. It is also an insult to guilt. Dara Ó Briain (comedian) 1....

Chapter 7. Euthanasia

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His enemies put it bluntly. Singer says it’s OK to kill disabled babies. Singer says seriously damaged human beings are on a par with apes. Singer says it would have been OK to kill his own mother. These charges are spat out of the sides of their mouths. One theologian I spoke to said contemptuously...

Chapter 6. Metaethical Theories

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But in every case in which one would commonly be said to be making an ethical judgment, the function of the relevant ethical word is purely ‘emotive’. It is used to express feeling about certain objects, but not to make any assertion about them. *WARNING* In purely length terms, this is a longer cha...

Chapter 8. Business Ethics

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. Henry Ford There is no such thing as business ethics. John Maxwell 1. Introduction to Business Ethics What is a business? Is Christian Aid a business? Is McDonalds? What about a university? This is a difficult and complicated questi...

Chapter 4. Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory

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They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it. 1. Introduction to Aquinas Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was...

Chapter 10. Sexual Ethics

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Only when you [have sex] […] are you most cleanly alive and most cleanly yourself. […] Sex isn’t just friction and shallow fun. Sex is also the revenge on death. Don’t forget death. Don’t ever forget it. Yes, sex too is limited in its power. […] But tell me, what power is greater ? There is no moral...

Chapter 3. Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

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To seek virtue for the sake of reward is to dig for iron with a spade of gold. 1. Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Introduction Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a scholar in disciplines such as ethics, metaphysics, biology and botany, amongst others. It is fitting, therefore, that his moral philosophy is based...

Chapter 14. Eating Animals

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. 1. Eating Animals Introduction The British, and many other nations, have something of an odd relationship w...

Introduction

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1. Philosophy, Ethics and Thinking Philosophy is hard. Part of the reason it can feel so annoying is because it seems like it should not be hard. After all, philosophy just involves thinking, and we all think — thinking is easy! We do it without… well, thinking. Yet philosophy involves not just thin...

Chapter 5. Fletcher’s Situation Ethics

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People like to wallow or cower in the security of the law. Every man must decide for himself according to his own estimate of conditions and consequences … 1. Situation Ethics Introduction In the introduction to The Situation Ethics: The New MoralityJoseph Fletcher (1905 – 1991) develops what he cal...

Chapter 11. Stealing

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You shall not steal. 1. Stealing: Introduction The Bible reference above is absolutist in nature. It does not say that you should not steal so long as you have enough resources available to you, or that you should not steal if your neighbour has been good to you. Rather, it simply says that you shou...

Chapter 2. Kantian Ethics

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In spite of its horrifying title Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals is one of the small books which are truly great; it has exercised on human thought an influence almost ludicrously disproportionate to its size. 1. An Introduction to Kantian Ethics Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in König...

Ethics for A-Level

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What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated', can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metae...

L'agriculture urbaine dans les quartiers défavorisés de la métropole New-Yorkaise: la justice alimentaire à l'épreuve de la justice sociale

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Flaminia Paddeu (3 oct. 2012)

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La notion de justice alimentaire irrigue les discours des tenants du food movement aux États-Unis. Elle se traduit par l'essor de l'agriculture urbaine dans les grandes métropoles américaines. Loin de se cantonner à son statut de mouvement de classes moyennes blanches préoccupées par leur bien-être...

L’agriculture urbaine dans les quartiers défavorisés de la métropole New-Yorkaise : la justice alimentaire à l'épreuve de la justice sociale

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Flaminia Paddeu (2012)

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La notion de justice alimentaire irrigue les discours des tenants du food movement aux États-Unis. Elle se traduit par l’essor de l agriculture urbaine dans les grandes métropoles américaines. Loin de se cantonner à son statut de mouvement de classes moyennes blanches préoccupées par leur bien-être...

Andrew Fisher : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

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Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire) (1922)

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