A little while ago I posted up some thoughts I had about the war in Iraq. These thoughts did not come in a vacuum. At the time of the invasion I read several books on the morality of war. At the time of compiling this article had just read James Turner Johnson’s works on the […]
Entries from October 11th, 2007
More on Iraq and the Just War Theory
October 11th, 2007 11 Comments
Tags: George Bush · Iraq · Saddam Hussein · US Politics · War Ethics
Published
October 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Published
This morning I received word that my article Abortion and Capital Punishment : No Contradiction, will be published in one of the next 3-4 issues of Think. I would like to thank Perfect Man whose comments motivated me to submit this section of my thesis for publication.
Tags: Abortion · Feticide · Published · Think Magazine
Why Blaming the Ref is Not Welfarism
October 9th, 2007 1 Comment
I am not a sports commentator, and would not consider myself any expert on the question. Like many New Zealanders I love rugby, I played it as a child and at high school. Recently I played a game at the College I teach at and remember the thrill of breaking three tackles and later scoring […]
Viability
October 2nd, 2007 4 Comments
A common argument claims that a fetus is not a human being until it is capable of surviving independently of another individual. Prior to this period, it does not have an independent existence from its mother; hence killing it is not homicide. This position is common in many legal and ethical arguments about the morality […]
Tags: Abortion · David Oderberg · Ethics · Feticide · Susan Sherwin · Viability
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
