Ethics

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Burying Thatcher: why celebrating death is still wrong

Patrick Stokes | 17 April 2013 |

tags: death, ethics, Margaret Thatcher, obituaries

Our dealings with the dead are just as ethically governed as our dealings with the living.

The new anti-heroes: Dirty Harry, News of the World and Lila Rose

Zac Alstin | 09 March 2012 |

tags: ethics, journalism

Can theft and lying for the sake of a good cause be justified?

A Weimar moment for America

Robert R. Reilly | 05 March 2012 |

tags: ethics, same-sex marriage

Extending the privilege of marriage to homosexuals undermines its foundations.

After-birth abortion or ante-natal infanticide?

Trevor Stammers | 05 March 2012 |

tags: abortion, after-birth abortion, bioethics, ethics

Isn't it rather naive for a philosopher to protest that ideas don't have consequences?

Body language

Anthony Esolen | 04 August 2011 |

tags: ethics, Public Discourse, sexual revolution

The body has a language of its own, and the sexual revolution is founded upon a lie.

Is Hollywood a health risk?

Ronan Wright | 17 June 2011 |

tags: ethics, Freedom of speech, Hollywood

Between dude-fests and other crass crowd-pleasers the movie empire is setting us up for an ethical heart attack.

Public figures and public ethics

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 June 2011 |

tags: ethics, IMF, leadership

IMF and FIFA bosses, the Governor of California - do we get the leaders we deserve?

A streetcar named moral confusion

Zac Alstin | 10 May 2011 |

tags: ethics, philosophy

Don't be taken in by a hypothetical problem meant to impress beginners.

People have to come before profits, even in a crisis

Alistair Nicholas | 21 March 2011 |

tags: ethics, Japan, tsunami

The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster has become a textbook example of what not to do in an emergency.

Is “Yuck!” a good enough reason?

Zac Alstin | 24 February 2011 |

tags: ethics, Peter Singer, Yuck factor

Do taboos on incest and infanticide have a rational basis?

Same old, same old

Michael Cook | 10 February 2011 |

tags: ethics, Peter Singer, utilitarianism

The ageing rock star of ethics, Peter Singer, is still playing the same taboo-smashing tunes.

Stung! The ethics of entrapment

Carolyn Moynihan | 04 February 2011 |

tags: ethics, Planned Parenthood, pro-life movement

Is it OK to use deceit in the service of a cause you believe in?

Obesity and the ethicist’s diet

Zac Alstin | 04 January 2011 |

tags: ethics, obesity, pleasure, reason

Is the alarming growth in obesity due to a triumph of pleasure over reason?

Wikileaks, wikileakers, and wiki-ethics

Margaret Somerville | 11 December 2010 |

tags: ethics, internet, Wikileaks

Enough of kneejerk reactions. We need to take a long, hard look at the ethics of releasing government secrets.

Breach of trust

Michael Cook | 17 September 2010 |

tags: ethics, Harvard, morality

A case of "academic misconduct" at Harvard has taken the gloss off "the new science of morality".

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