Ethics, Psychology, and Batman

Intrinsic Value

Please comment on your view regarding whether or not some things have intrinsic or instrumental value. A short self-test will be available soon.

The Day The Earth Stood Still and Ethics

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How To Write an Ethics Paper

Straw Dogs

This work by John Gray is exceptionally tantalizing in its approach to the “problem” of free will vs. determinism. The author makes a good case for the idea that we are largely determined by genetic and environmental factors about which we are completely unconscious. His treatement of morality reminds me of David Hume’s concept of empathy and clearly implies the continuity between animal and human-animal nature.