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Ethics Beyond Compliance: October 2007
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Monday, October 8, 2007. The Value of Simplicity. Be to become a better person rather than a more relaxed person. A feeling of calm can help one see reality with greater clarity, but calm in itself is not the end goal of meditation. Right thought is necessary to produce right action, and right action is driven by compassion for all that suffer, which is to say all that live. Another Quaker, Richard Gregg, was equally clear on the value of simplicity in 1936. He said:. A 2001 New York Times article. At Tu...
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: The High Cost of Occupation: The High Cost of Injustice
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Friday, November 18, 2011. The High Cost of Occupation: The High Cost of Injustice. According to various reports. Is a good use of money, but policing protests takes a few pennies either way. Which brings us to the final point. The purpose of protests is to make the cost, financial and otherwise, of injustice greater than the price of justice. Labels: abuse of authority. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog moved to Wordpress. I paid you back, so whats the problem? Tea Party Fights Corporate Abuse.
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: February 2009
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Friday, February 13, 2009. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. The presenter I saw began by mentioning Siddhartha. He said, correctly, that there were four noble truths, but he did not mention what the first three were (they have to do with life as suffering or sorrow, the causes of sorrow, and the extinction of sorrow). The fourth truth is Siddhartha's dharma. Or teaching of "the way." The word " dharma. So long as we do, life, which is sorrow itself, will continue. Links to this post.
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: August 2009
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Friday, August 28, 2009. Hume on Circumstances of Justice. When I read Hume, I am never disappointed. With a little guidance from Martha Nussbaum, today I found this passage in Hume:. It may happen, in some countries, at some periods, that there be established a property in water, none in land; if the latter be in greater abundance than can be used by the inhabitants, and the former be found, with difficulty, and in very small quantities.". Links to this post. Friday, August 14, 2009. Learning every deta...
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: June 2008
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Thursday, June 26, 2008. Genetics and the Alterable Course Toward Fascism. Genetics and the Alterable Course Toward Fascism. Given that theories of heritability arose before eugenic plans and that those eugenics plans preceded fascism, it is easy to understand why some would infer that hereditary thinking in Western cultural settings may have caused both the eugenics programs and the fascist movements that followed. On the face of it, of course, this is a clear example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: March 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. How happy should you be? I've led myself to a paradox I cannot resolve. And I feel vaguely peaceful about it. Links to this post. Pleasure derived from the pain of others. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Some basic ideas regarding knowledge. This is information for students and may be less than entertaining, provocative or illuminating for others. The following are some ideas related to knowledge and how philosophers regard knowledge:. Which is not the subject of this blog. View my c...
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: November 2007
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Monday, November 19, 2007. When doctor's hate informed patients. A doctor, Scott Haig, published an essay in time magazine titled " When the Patient is a Googler. On November 8. The doctor describes a prospective patient who is "well spoken and in good shape, an attractive woman in her mid-40s." He then says that she "launched into me with a barrage of excrutiatingly well-informed questions.". Paternalism, indeed, is not dead. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: January 2008
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008. When asked who would be an authority on matters of morality, most members of the public, in the United States at least, would first mention members of the clergy. More sophisticated individuals might know to mention theologians specifically. Few people would think to mention philosophers, especially not secular or, worse, atheistic philosophers. In The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels says:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: October 2011
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Monday, October 31, 2011. When should corporations be treated as people? I recently attended a conference on business ethics, and one of the presenters asked what human rights corporations had. When some scoffed at the notions that a corporation could have any human rights at all, the presenter asked whether corporations did not have the right to buy property. Indeed, the earliest laws regarding corporations dealt with just such problems. If such things still happened, perhaps we could better handle the ...
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Ethics Beyond Compliance: July 2008
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008. In 1971, Van Rensselaer Potter published Bioethics: Bridge to the Future. And defined “bioethics” as an ethics based on biological survival. In his first book, he dealt with subjects such as stress, toxic hazards, ecology, biotechnology, and population growth. In his 1988 book, Global Bioethics. Christian Frei’s 2001 film, War Photographer. The fact remains that Nachtwey has garnered fame [1]. And Time Magazine,. His wesite, www.jamesnachtwey.com. Links to this post. Philosophy Fa...
