Recently added articles from Social Theory and Practice:
Death, dignity, and respect.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Philosophers attracted to Kantian ethics have recently followed Kant himself in focusing on the Formula of Humanity (FH) as a basis for specifying what we are morally required to do. (1) This principle commands: "So act that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person ...
Animals, agency, and obligation in Kantian ethics.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... For Kantians, one of the most unsettling aspects of Kant's ethics is its account of obligations to nonhuman animals (hereafter, simply "animals"). Kant holds that we have no direct duties to animals as sentient beings and only indirect duties regarding them; animals lacking rational wills ...
The problem with negligence.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction When an individual is negligent and as a result injures someone else, we tend to hold her responsible for those injuries and judge her blameworthy. Indeed, blaming people for their negligence, or thoughtlessness, or carelessness, is an all too common occurrence ....
When good alone isn't enough: examining Griffin's On Human Rights.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [Review Essay: James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), xiii + 339 pp.] 1. James Griffin's On Human Rights is a thoughtful, interesting, informative, often illuminating, but also often frustrating and not wholly satisfying examination ...
Assessing terrorism: two views.("How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence" by Virginia Held, and "The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security, and the Response to Terrorism" by Tamar Meisels)(Book review)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [Review Essay: Virginia Held, How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), x + 205 pp.; and Tamar Meisels, The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security, and the Response to Terrorism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), xi + 239 ...