"To find peace, learn to lose." —The Tao Te Ching Humans, like wolves, are pack animals. Sure, we may fetishize individualism during times of abundance, but as the iconic Game of Thrones character Ned ...

Justice Stephen Breyer’s announcement of his intention to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term provides occasion to contrast his approach to judging with the very different approach ...

ABSTRACT: There are three main moral theories: virtue ethics, the deontological approach and utilitarianism. The concern here is how they interrelate, why they come into focus at different times and ...

Christopher Nolan’s latest masterwork, Oppenheimer, opens with a quote on Prometheus and the consequences of his most famous action—namely, stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humankind. With ...

ABSTRACT: This paper displays major results of a research project undertaken in a single country unit to address the relevance of the implementation process of a given Technology-based initiative ...

Lawrence Crocker on lotteries, reasonable actions, and weird outliers. Take the last day I gave a lecture on ethical theory. I was in the classroom at the scheduled time. I was not on my office ...

Getting to grips with the main features of the different ethical theories can be daunting. Daniel K Sokol and Gillian Bergson make it a bit simpler You may already have heard a little about some of ...

This section briefly summaries the kinds of ethical theories that most often figure in discussions of topics in applied ethics. It should be noted both that these are kinds of theories and that no ...

Alice Crary teaches philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and is Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, 2021-22. Her current projects include two books, Animal Crisis, ...