Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a re….

If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed to count….

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countr….

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily fun….

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are que….

Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their ….

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things..

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness..

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justif….

After 9/11, the American Red Cross received more than half a billion dollars in donations to help the victims of the terrorist attacks. The families ….

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself….

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domi….

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making busine….

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't m….

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating..

In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire….

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals)..

In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere ….

Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probab….

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact tha….

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness wil….