Ethically Yours

TED: Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in Prison Link to the Prison University Project:  http://www.prisonuniversityproject.org/

More quotes… "Since virtue is concerned with passions and actions, and on voluntary passions and actions praise and blame are bestowed, on those that are involuntary pardon, and sometimes also pity, to distinguish the voluntary and the involuntary is presumable necessary for those who are studying the nature of virtue, and useful also for legislators [...]

More quotes for my students.  Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. "Intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also [...]

More quotes from Plato’s Republic for my philosophy students.  Themes include:  The Just Man Virtue Social Contract Theory Conceptual Analysis Human Nature The sin of inaction  Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. Melden, "Socrates holds that in moral conduct also there is a measure which [...]

Like many others, I’m somewhat ecstatic that the Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. However, thinking about events over the years since 9/11 and the wide range of celebrations and comments on his death I have to wonder if, in the end, he actually achieved his twisted goals. Our nation seems more divided than ever between [...]

Food for Thought

Hollywood: Valkyrie   “Hero” is not an adjective often used to describe anyone who is formally a Nazi. After all, who familiar with the horrors perpetuated during WWII by Nazi officials would label them heroic?  Highlighting these horrors are genocide (attempting to eliminate various peoples to include anyone with “non-Aryan” blood), perverting professional institutions such [...]

Many martial arts divide practitioners into two groups.  The basic or beginner kyu-ranks are often identified as those students wearing colored belts, e.g., white, gold, orange, blue, green, and brown.  The dan-ranks are often identified by their black belts.  For the most part, earning kyu-rank and lower dan-rank depends solely upon demonstrating proficiency, knowledge and [...]

A blog I follow, Atheist Revolution, had interesting responses to the question “Should atheists help predominately Christian people in need?” The author of Atheist Revolutions was responding to the comment, What surprises me is how many atheists and agnostics give a damn about helping these people. Yes, I know they are human beings, but step [...]