Category: Ethics
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21st Century Slavery – Now you see it – Now you don’t
What constitutes morality isn’t easy to define much less pin down. But what constitutes slavery most certainly is… right? Free will. Who’s got yours?
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Feminism and Jane Austen
However if we look to the basic premise underlying Enlightenment feminism – that women, not having been denied powers of reason, must have the moral status appropriate to ‘rational beings’, formed in the image of a rational God – we must reach a different conclusion. At least two of the three of Austen’s heroines examined…
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The Moral Maze of Self Interest
For although‘morality’ has meant many different things to many different people – the bottom line has always been – ouch – morality = self-interest.
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Political Posturing or Master-Slave Morality – in the ‘Free World’
I suggest that those who so easily invoke ‘morality’ on their side, have given little serious thought as to what it might mean or perhaps more interesting – from whence the concept might come.
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The Unexpected Benefits of Shame
In this context, shame is not a painful conclusion as it often assumed to be the case, but an joyous opportunity.
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1933 and FDR’s great ‘the money lenders’ speech – history repeats – what will we do this time?
“Faced by the failure of credit they proposed only the lending of more money.” FDR/ 1933 inaugural speech