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The Ethics of Evolution
The Ethics of Evolution
Evolutionary development has exhibited some obvious contribution to the development of moral beliefs held, yet this does not simply mean…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Sep 29, 2023
Evolutionary Progress?
Evolutionary Progress?
Although many biologists formally disavow the notion of progressive evolution, there remains an implicit sense in which there is a…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Sep 29, 2023
Why be Moral?
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 raises…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Sep 29, 2023
Cognitivism and Ideology
Cognitivism and Ideology
Although non-cognitivism appears to be a plausible account of ‘postmodern’ moral discourse, this makes practical moral life untenable in…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Sep 29, 2023
Hegel and Kant on Ethics
Hegel and Kant on Ethics
Kant offers the Categorical Imperative as the ‘Supreme Principle of Morality’, the ultimate test of the moral permissibility of actions…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Sep 2, 2023
Gender, Sex, and Jouissance
Gender, Sex, and Jouissance
Through a consideration of sex and love in its historical, social, psychological totality, gender is something which cannot be reduced to…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Jun 12, 2023
The Ethics of Sex
The Ethics of Sex
Sex appears as something which challenges the moral law, in which people satisfy impulses without shame, and engage in acts otherwise…
Melvin A. Kivinen
Jun 12, 2023
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