In my last post, Abortion and the Morality of Feticide: Part I, I briefly sketched an argument against feticide, [1] It is wrong to kill a human being without justification; [2] A fetus is a human being; [3] In the case of feticide (at least in the majority of cases) insufficient or no justification is forthcoming. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethics'
Abortion and the Morality of Feticide: Part II
February 16th, 2011 155 Comments
Tags: Abortion · David Boonin · David Oderberg · Ethics · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · John Locke · Michael Tooley · Peter Singer · Susan Sherwin
Understanding the Abortion Debate with Francis Beckwith
February 13th, 2011 6 Comments
Those who have been following Matt’s series Abortion and the Morality of Feticide might enjoy this video featuring Francis Beckwith of Baylor University’s Philosophy faculty speaking to the Summit Ministries Interns on the topic “Understanding the Abortion Debate“. Beckwith is arguably one of best contemporary philosophers writing from the pro-life position. He is a clear and entertaining speaker who […]
Tags: Abortion · Feticide · Francis Beckwith · Summit Ministries
Abortion and the Morality of Feticide: Part I
February 10th, 2011 168 Comments
Is it morally permissible to commit feticide? The abortion debate swirls around this question, a lot of rhetoric, emotion and anger gets spent on debating this question or avoiding it. In this series I will examine this question. First I will sketch an argument against feticide: the killing of a fetus. Then I will examine […]
Tags: Abortion · Backstreet Abortion · Ethics · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · Francis Beckwith · Peter Kreeft · Zoe During
Video of Matthew Flannagan Speaking on Divine Command Theory
February 7th, 2011 10 Comments
On 4 February 2011 the Auckland Reason and Science Society (“RSS”) hosted an event they titled “Divine Command Theory with Dr. Matthew Flannagan” at the University of Auckland. For those of you who missed the event, here is the video. Note: This video only includes footage of the talk itself and not the Q&A that […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · MandM on Video · Reason and Science Society
Contra Mundum: Is God a 21st Century Western Liberal?
February 1st, 2011 15 Comments
On 11 September 2001 Islamic terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Centre killing thousands of innocent people. Ostensibly they did this because they believed God commanded them to do so. This event has invigorated a fear latent in the Western psyche since the 17th century when wars of religion tore Europe apart, the […]
Tags: 9/11 · Contra Mundum · God and Morality · Hermeneutics · J J Finkelstein · Raymond Bradley · Raymond Westbrook · Robert Adams · World Trade Centre
Nietzsche on Over-Compensating
January 25th, 2011 61 Comments
They are rid of the Christian God and now believe all the more firmly that they must cling to Christian morality. They must rehabilitate themselves after ever little emancipation from religion by showing in a veritably awe-inspiring way what moral fanatics they are. That is their penance. Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche · God and Morality
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.
Pro Life Tour: Hear Jill Stanek, Bryan Kemper, Glenn Peoples, Brendan Malone and Matthew Flannagan
January 31st, 2011 305 Comments
Student group Pro-Life New Zealand brought have popular pro-life speakers Jill Stanek and Bryan Kemper out from the US for a nationwide tour of New Zealand. Pro Life Tour 2011 31 Jan Wellington 1 Feb Palmerston North 2 – 3 Feb Christchurch 4 Feb Dunedin 5 Feb Auckland 7 Feb Hamilton Most centres will have day workshops […]
Tags: Abortion · Brendan Malone · Bryan Kemper · Ethics · Feticide · Glenn Peoples · Jill Stanek · Pro Life NZ