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The Ethics of Evolution

Evolutionary development has exhibited some obvious contribution to the development of moral beliefs held, yet this…

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Evolutionary Progress?

Although many biologists formally disavow the notion of progressive evolution, there remains an implicit sense in which…

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Why be Moral?

Glaucon and Adeimantus in Plato’s Republic offer an injunction against Plato’s fidelity to morality: Why should one be moral? This…

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Cognitivism and Ideology

Although non-cognitivism appears to be a plausible account of ‘postmodern’ moral discourse, this makes practical…

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Hegel and Kant on Ethics

Kant offers the Categorical Imperative as the ‘Supreme Principle of Morality’, the ultimate test of the moral…

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Gender, Sex, and Jouissance

Through a consideration of sex and love in its historical, social, psychological totality, gender is something…

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The Ethics of Sex

Sex appears as something which challenges the moral law, in which people satisfy impulses without shame, and engage in acts…

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Foucault’s Genealogy

Drawing from Nietzsche, Foucault develops ‘genealogy’ as something which positions itself as something which can not only…

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Freedom and Consciousness in Sartre

Sartre’s conception of consciousness is irrevocably tied up with the project of freedom. This…

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Wittgenstein, the Antiphilosopher

Although it is difficult to grasp Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its totality, particularly in the…

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