Moral Children: Does the fact that young children agree on their moral assessment
of various situations lend credibility to the claim that there are universal
moral standards? Experts Say Children Show Empathy Early
(http://web.dailycamera.com/livingarts/youth/14pempa.html)
Article by Karen Patterson from the Dallas Morning News Moral Education is Finding Its Way Back Into Public Schools
(http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books/fulltext/character/23.pdf)
Article by Christina Hoff Sommers (Adobe File)
Vision and Virtue
(http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0082.html)
Article by William Kirkpatrick from the Catholic Education Resource Center Relativism
(http://www.friesian.com/relative.htm)
Detailed discussion by Kelley Ross (Friesian School Proceedings) Ethical Relativism
(http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/publications/iie/v5n2/relativism.html)
Article by Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez from Issues in Ethics,
1992; summarizes and criticizes ethical relativism When in Rome: Can a person
raised in another culture be faulted for not following the rules of the culture
she now finds herself in? Female Genital Mutilation: An Issue of Cultural Relativism or Human Rights?
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/jc.htm)
Article by Jacqueline Castledine (Mount Holyoke College) Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation
(http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/fgm_pathfinder.htm)
Resource guide from the University of Florida Hands Off Clitoridectomy
(http://www.bostonreview.net/BR21.3/Tamir.html)
Article by Yael Tamir from the Boston Review Double Moral Standards?
(http://bostonreview.net/BR21.5/Nussbaum.html)
Response by Martha Nussbaum to Yael Tamir's article Moral Relativity is a Hot Topic? True. Absolutely.
(http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~ncrato/Recortes/EdRothstein_NYT_20020613.htm)
Article by Edward Rothstein for the New York Times Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
(http://bostonreview.net/BR22.5/okin.html)
Article by Susan Moller Okin for the Boston Review arguing that cultural
relativism is inconsistent with feminism Whose Culture?
(http://bostonreview.net/BR22.5/pollitt.html)
Article by Katha Pollitt for the Boston Review responding to Okin's
article and addressing the issue of feminism and mutliculturalism Commanded to
Kill: Would you follow a command from God to perform an immoral act? The Divine Command Theory of Ethics
(http://www.faithnet.org.uk/AS%20Subjects/Ethics/divinecommand.htm)
Discussion from Faithnet Moral Knowledge: Does the fact that we all agree that
it would be wrong not to give a child an anesthetic before a painful operation
show that we have
moral knowledge? Why or why not? Moral Epistemology
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-epistemology/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article Moral Skepticism
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-moral/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article Moral Skepticism
(http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2005.00375.x?cookieSet=1)
Summary of different views of moral skepticism by Patrick Loobuyck (Flanders
Funk for Scientific Research) Animal Rights: Should animal suffering be taken into account when performing utilitarian calculations? If so, how much weight should animal suffering be given? Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals
(http://www.utilitarianism.com/jeremybentham.html)
Selection from Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. The Moral Status of Animals
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the moral status of animals Ethics Updates - Animal Rights and Welfare
(http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Animals/index.asp)
Portal to a variety of sites and resources concerned with the moral status of animals Singer's “Preference Utilitarianism”: Is Singer's “preference utilitarianism” more plausible than conventional act- or rule-utilitarianism? Do you agree with Singer's position on the permissibility of killing disabled infants? Decisions about Death
(http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/200508--.htm)
Article by Peter Singer The Worth of Human Life is Unquestionable
(http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=2428)
Article criticizing Singer Preference Utilitarianism
(http://www.moralphilosophy.info/preferenceutilitarianism.html)
Information on Preference Utilitarianism Peter Singer
(http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/)
Regularly updated links to a plethora of Singer's articles and interviews The Utility Machine: Is increasing utility
by 1000% worth the price of 50,000 lives? Pinto Madness
(http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/SO77/dowie.html)
Article by Mark Dowie of Mother Jones exposing Ford Motor Company's
decision to pay death benefits rather than reposition the gas tank in the Ford
Pinto Utilitarianism
(http://anton_eclipse.tripod.com/utilitarianism.htm)
Article by Anthony Griffin discussing utilitarianism as it applies to the Ford
Pinto case The Value of Reality: Cypher and the Experience Machine
(http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_experience.html)
Article by Christopher Grau exploring the value of virtual reality as depicted
in the movie, The Matrix Issues in Utilitarianism
(http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mponeill/reason&morality/utilitarianismIII.html)
Lecture notes from Martin O'Neill (Harvard University) on utilitarianism and
the problem of utility monsters Organ Transplants: Is it morally permissible
to kill a comatose terminal patient to harvest her organs in order to save
the lives of others? The Trolley Problem
(http://www.uwec.edu/philrel/Prism/PRISM2002/page0035.htm)
Analysis by Kevin Patrick Gelb (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) The Trolley Problem
(http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/articles/dlj48p975.htm#H1N4)
Discussion
of the trolley problem by George C. Christie What Drives Moral Decision Making?
(http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/1022/)
Article by Steven Schultz discussing the Princeton brain research into the
nature of moral decision making Medical Treatment: Do we have a moral obligation to pay the medical expenses
of those who cannot afford to pay them? Rights
(http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/rights.html)
Explication of the concept of rights by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
(Santa Clara University) Rights vs. Rights
(http://www.libertyhaven.com/personalfreedomissues/freespeechorcivilliberties/rightsvsrigh)
Article by Tibor Machan (Auburn University) on the difference between positive
and negative rights Wrong Rights
(http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0202c.asp)
Article by Sheldon Richman from the Future of Freedom Foundation on negative
and positive rights Canada's
Fatal Error: Health Care as a Right
(http://www.haciendapub.com/aubrey.html)
Article by Michael E. Aubrey criticizing Canada's health care system War: Which rationale for the Iraq War, Kantian or utilitarian, seems more plausible to you? Does any rationale seem plausible? Kant and Mill in Baghdad
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=6800
John Judis's article on the changing justification for war. A Look at the War in Iraq: Utilitarianism vs. Kantian Ethics
(http://www.perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=24185&forum_id=71)
An essay on the justifications for the Iraq War Just War Theory
(http://www.tutor2u.net/newsmanager/templates/?a=787&z=63)
A page on theories of just war and the Iraq War Choosing War
(http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/cappe//docs/Respublicavol12.1pdf)
Hugh White's article on the justification for war Easy Rescue:
Do we have a right to an easy rescue (a rescue that does not put the rescuer
in peril)? A Duty to Rescue?
(http://www.bark.net.au/Society/socart2.htm)
Article from Bark.net (Australia) What Would Have Seinfeld Done If He Lived
in a Jewish State?
(http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/79-4/p1185rochester.pdf)
Article by Shaya Rochester (Washington University School of Law) on the question
of good Samaritan laws raised by the last episode of Seinfeld (Adobe File) An
Argument Against a Legal Duty to Rescue
(http://philosophy.wisc.edu/hunt/duty2res.htm)
Article by Lester H. Hunt (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Desert Island Bequest:
Are we morally obligated to honor a promise to a dying man if we can do more
good by not honoring it? Desert Island Promise
(http://www.unisa.edu.au/lavskis/philosophy/units/U4phil/desert.html)
Presentation and analysis of a desert island promise case by Peter Lavskis
(University of South Australia) Two Objections to Utilitarianism
(http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/cduncan/f01-101/utility2.doc)
Notes by Craig Duncan (Ithaca College) on the utilitarianism and promise
making Against Utilitarianism; or, Why Not Violate Rights If It'd Do Good?
(http://www.mises.org/asc/2002/ASC8-Machan.pdf)
Article by Tibor Machan offering various objections to utilitarianism (Adobe
File) Just Policies: According to Rawls, would the following policies be just:
entitlement programs such as welfare, medicare, and Medicaid; an inheritance
tax of over
75% the right to an easy rescue; homosexual marriage; legalized euthanasia? John Rawls Resource Page
(http://www.policylibrary.com/rawls/index.htm)
Set of links maintained by the Policy Library Original Position
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article Distributive Justice
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article Rawls and Machievelli: The
Dream Team?
(http://www.etes.ucl.ac.be/DOCH/DOCH%2042%20(VanParijs).pdf)
Article by Philip Van Parijs advocating the use of Rawls's principles in
framing public policy (Adobe File) Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1237)
Brief submitted by leading philosophers to the Supreme Court in favor of
physician assisted suicide Legalizing No-Victim Crimes: Should no-victim crimes
be legalized? Victimless Crimes:
Where Are Their Victims?
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4612/crimes-intro.html)
Article by David J. Euchner (Rutgers School of Law) arguing in favor of legalizing
victimless crimes Crime, Violence, and Drug Use Go Hand-in-Hand
(http://www.dea.gov/demand/speakout/07so.htm)
Statement by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Association on the implications of
legalizing drugs Property Rights: Do we have a right to do anything we want
with our property? Defenders of Property Rights
(http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/)
National Public Interest Legal Foundation dedicated to protecting property
rights Property Rights Research
(http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/)
Collection of articles relating to government laws regarding property rights The
Property Rights Issue
(http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Economics/econ-11.cfm?&CFID;=6849576&CFTOKEN;=43)
Article by Attorney Robert Meltz on the legal issues surrounding property rights Property
Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Protection
(http://www.cei.org/gencon/025,01452.cfm)
Article by Richard H. Adler summarizing the arguments for and against government
seizure of private property American Land Rights Organization
(http://www.landrights.org/)
Home page of a grass roots organization dedicated to preserving land rights Preemptive Incarceration: If we knew that someone had a high likelihood of committing a violent crime, would we be justified in preemptively locking them up? If we're not justified in doing that, are we justified in preemptively going to war? "Preemptive" war, "preemptive" incarceration
(http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/preemptive_war_.html)
Blog entry about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Is there a genetic susceptibility to engage in criminal acts?
(http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi263t.html)
Paper considering the evidence for the existence of a genetic susceptivility to engage in criminal acts Pre-emptive incarceration
(http://www.perfect.co.uk/2004/02/preemptive-incarceration)
Blog entry on the British proposal to reduce the burden of proof for terrorism suspects Lying
with Care: Do we have a duty to lie to protect those who have cared for us? Lying
(http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/publications/iie/v6n1/lying.html)
Article by Tim C. Mazur for the Markkula Center for Aplied Ethics identifying
different ethical perspectives on lyng Feminist Ethics
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article Inter-organisational Relations
and the Ethics of Care
(http://www.scpm.salford.ac.uk/trust/Documents/Chicago%20Paper.doc)
Article by Peter McDermott and Will Swan on the usefulness of the ethics
of care in a business environment Ecofeminism
(http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.d.smith/ecofeminism.html)
Overview of different feminist ethical theories by Richard Smith (University
of Durham) Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
(http://www.lahey.org/PDF/Ethics/Winter_1999.pdf)
Article by Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Adobe
File) Jillian's Choice: According to utilitarianism, did Jillian do the right thing? According to Kantianism, did she do the right thing? Jillian Searle
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Jillian%20Searle
Description and evaluation of the choice made by Jillian Searle. Tsunami Mother's Terrible Choice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4137053.stm
Report of the situation faced by Jillian Searle. Utilitarianism
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism)
Wikipedia entry on Utilitarianism Kant and Kantian Ethics
(http://ethics.acusd.edu/theories/kant/index.asp )
A portal to many sites about Kant and his theories of ethics The Zygmanic Brothers: Did Lester Zygmanic do the right thing in killing
his brother George? Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide
(http://www.religioustolerance.org/euthanas.htm/tnew_window)
Detailed overview of the issue and current legal situation from ReligiousTolerance.org International Task
Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
(http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/)
FAQs, information about advanced directives, the situation in the Netherlands,
etc. from a perspective that opposes legalization Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers'
Brief
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1237)
Brief submitted by leading philosophers to the Supreme Court in favor of
physician assisted suicide Empathy and Agency: Can someone without a conscience--without
the ability to empathize with others--act morally? The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
(http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/agency.html)
Review by Neil Levy (University of Melbourne) On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
(http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/warren_article.html)
Article by Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University) The Ring of Gyges:
Would the behavior of a virtuous person with the power of invisibility be
no different from that of an outlaw? The Ring of Gyges
(http://webs.wofford.edu/kaycd/ethics/gyges.htm)
Excerpt from Plato's Republic Justice as a Virtue
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article The Ring of Gyges
(http://www.plato-dialogues.org/tetra_4/republic/gyges.htm)
Discussion of the relation of this story to Plato's Allegory of the Cave by
Bernard Suzanne (Plato and his Dialogues) The Ring of Gyges
(http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/051/lec3.html)
Lecture notes by Alexander R. Pruss (Georgetown University) | 