Moral Education: Teaching Students to be Better People
What are the proper moral education, and how should those goals be pursued? Theories of moral education try to answer that question: they provide ideas about how we can, and should, try to teach...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: Ethics, Society, and the Environment
Author: Thomas Metcalf Category: Ethics, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Social and Political Philosophy Word count: 998 Artificially intelligent entities or “AIs” are computer programs or machines...
View ArticleRobert Nozick’s “Wilt Chamberlain” Argument for Libertarianism
Author: Daniel Weltman Category: Social and Political Philosophy Word Count: 998 Some people are rich. Others are poor. Is this bad? Many argue that it’s unjust for society to be deeply unequal, and...
View ArticleEthics and Animal Research
While many medical advances such as vaccines, analgesics, and dialysis have involved animal research, the practice is controversial for a simple reason: we experiment on animals because they are like...
View ArticleCivil Disobedience: Seeking Justice by Breaking the Law
What is civil disobedience? Can it be justified? If so, under what conditions? And what should happen to people who engage in civil disobedience? Should they be punished? Or should they be praised This...
View ArticleDehumanization: What is it to Dehumanize People?
Dehumanization involves wrongly treating or viewing some person or group as less than human. But what exactly is it to treat or view some person or group as less than human? And how might these actions...
View ArticleEquality: What Is It and How Is It Different from Equity?
Many say that we should make society more equal. But what should we equalize? This essay explains two of the most important ones: equality of outcome and equality of opportunity. The post Equality:...
View ArticleImmigration Ethics: An Overview
This essay explores some key competing philosophical arguments about whether it should be easier for people to immigrate to whatever country they would like. The post Immigration Ethics: An Overview...
View ArticleRacism: What Makes Something Racist?
Theories of racism try to answer these questions by trying to identify the essence of racism, the unifying and fundamental feature(s) of all racist things that explains why they are racist. This essay...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Homosexuality: Is It Morally Wrong?
If homosexuality is wrong, there should be a good reason to believe that. Likewise, if homosexuality is not wrong, there should be a good reason to believe that. This essay reviews some of the most...
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