What philosophy can pardon that? Consequentialism gambles; existentialism broods; Nietzsche roars; relativism shifts nationalities; biology pleads historical necessity. Each rationale lets the ...

Situation ethics seems to be little more than a form of act consequentialism, in that a person can only choose the right thing to do if they consider all the consequences of their possible action ...

EA is in many ways an offshoot of consequentialism, the school of moral philosophy that evaluates moral actions based solely on the goodness or badness of their consequences. One of the major ...

From a more general perspective, however, we might argue that the most significant divide in bioethics is not between virtue ethics and consequentialism, or continental and Anglo-American philosophy, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings and Frank Herbert's Dune are some of the most influential works of literature of all time. These stories are etched into the DNA of high fantasy and science ...

J.R.R. Tolkien disliked Dune because, unlike The Lord of the Rings, it offered no hope, only power, decay, and a bleak vision ...

'The Possibility of Aesthetic Realism' in Eva Schaper, ed., Pleasure, Preference and Value: Studies in Philosophical Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 17-38.

The programme is designed to provide students with an intellectual training in the disciplines of Philosophy and Politics which, while discrete subjects, are complementary and mutually enriching. The ...