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  • ethics

    Why Have Children: A Sequel to The Shame of Not Having Children
    Author: Michelle Fram-Cohen, Subject: American Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Psychology, Self Esteem, Sociology, Type: Informal, Life On Earth, Size: 9 K, Date: 2001-9-4

    Whose Liberalism? Which Individualism?: Review of Colin Bird's The Myth of Liberal Individualism
    Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Type: Academic, Book Reviews, Graduate, Journal Reprint, Size: 84 K, Date: 2001-8-29

    A Lockean Theory of Agency and Rights
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Politics, Type: Academic, Course Essay, Graduate, Size: 57 K, Date: 2001-6-6

    Self, Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Psychology, Type: Academic, Course Essay, Graduate, Size: 40 K, Date: 2001-6-6

    Objectivity and the Proof of Egoism
    Author: Robert Hartford, Subject: Ethics, Method, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 23 K, Date: 2001-5-15

    Individualism and the Vitality of Community Life
    Author: Tibor Machan, Subject: American Culture, Ethics, Politics, Sociology, Communitarianism, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 36 K, Date: 2001-5-3

    Transcripts of the First Online Conference
    Author: Bryan Register, Ted O'Connor, Matt Zwolinski, Bryan Register, Chris Sciabarra, Irfan Khawaja, Agnes Koos, Subject: Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Politics, Type: Academic, Commentary, Draft, Informal, Online Conference, Size: 6 K, Date: 2001-4-21

    The Categories, Values, and Value Principles
    Author: Robert Hartford, Subject: Ethics, Type: Annual Meeting, Draft, Size: 26 K, Date: 2001-4-20

    Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship
    Author: David Ward, Subject: American Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Psychology, Self Esteem, Sociology, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Size: 29 K, Date: 2001-4-11

    Valuing in Games and Life
    Author: Ted O'Connor, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 2001-4-8

    Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Type: Academic, Commentary, Course Essay, Graduate, Size: 30 K, Date: 2001-3-5

    Economic Man, Minimal Benevolence, and the Inadequacy of the Preference Satisfaction Theory of Well-Being
    Author: Neil Haddow, Subject: Ethics, economics, Type: Academic, Graduate, Size: 49 K, Date: 2001-2-27

    Value and Science
    Author: Agnes Koos, Subject: Epistemology, Ethics, Sociology, Type: Academic, Draft, Online Conference, Size: 52 K, Date: 2001-2-27

    The Greatest Good
    Author: Russell Madden, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Type: Fiction, Size: 52 K, Date: 2001-2-26

    Objectivism and Academe: The Progress, The Politics, and The Promise
    Author: Chris Sciabarra, Subject: Aesthetics, American History, Ancient Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Christianity, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Epistemology, Ethics, Feminism, Intellectual History, Linguistics, Literary Analysis, Mathematics, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Self Esteem, Type: Commentary, Online Conference, Size: 29 K, Date: 2001-2-15

    Review of The Last Place On Earth
    Author: Michelle Fram-Cohen, Subject: Ethics, Type: Book Reviews, Life On Earth, Size: 27 K, Date: 2001-2-1

    Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Self Esteem, Ancient Philosophy, Type: Academic, Size: 74 K, Date: 2001-1-01

    Affirmative Action
    Author: David Ward, Subject: Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Type: Academic, Size: 38 K, Date: 2000-11-24

    Anthem
    Author: Ayn Rand, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Self Esteem, Type: Fiction, Size: 110 K, Date: 2000-10-27

    Whatever Happened to Evil?: James Morrow's Blameless in Abaddon
    Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Christianity, Ethics, Type: Book Reviews, Size: 10 K, Date: 2000-10-15

    The Proper Function of Government: Two Newspaper Columns
    Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Type: Informal, Size: 28 K, Date: 2000-9-13

    Smoking, Irrationality, and Coercion: Three Letters
    Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Type: Informal, Size: 39 K, Date: 2000-9-13

    Toward A Logically Consistent Kind of Ethical Egoism
    Author: Neil Haddow, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Size: 97 K, Date: 2000-9-6

    Tom Bethell on Objectivist Individualism: A Response
    Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Type: Informal, Size: 25 K, Date: 2000-8-23

    Troubles with Moral Twin Earth
    Author: Neil Haddow, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Master's Thesis, Size: 74 K, Date: 2000-8-23

    Comments on Tara Smith'sViable Values
    Author: Irfan Khawaja, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Online Conference, Size: 99 K, Date: 2000-8-15

    Egoism in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Type: Academic, Graduate, Course Essay, Size: 1 K, Date: 2000-8-5

    OPAR Chapter 8: Virtue
    Author: Michelle Fram-Cohen, Subject: Ethics, Type: Chapter Study, Size: 31 K, Date: 2000-7-24

    The Love That Failed
    Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Ethics, Type: Book Reviews, Size: 10 K , Date: 2000-8-6

    Burmese Days by George Orwell
    Author: Tom Radcliffe, Subject: Ethics, Type: Book Reviews, Size: 7 K, Date: 2000-7-14

    There's No Such Thing as a Little White Lie
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Type: Life On Earth, Size: 6 K, Date: 1998-7-28

    Tax Evasion: A Righteous Lie
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Type: Life On Earth, Size: 6 K, Date: 1998-7-28

    Women and Selfishness
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Type: Life On Earth, Size: 14 K, Date: 1998-7-28

    Rude Awakening: The Social Liar Meets the Honest Brute - and They Both Lose
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Type: Life On Earth, Size: 11 K, Date: 1998-7-11

    The Shame of Not Wanting Children: The Social Stigma of Leading a Ward-Free Life
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Type: Life On Earth, Size: 49 K, Date: 1998-7-11

    The Moral Worth of Happiness
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 8 K, Date: 1997-4-22

    The Bias of Impartialism
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1997-4-04

    Between Instinct and Habit: The Role of Dispositions in Moral Decision-Making
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 114 K, Date: 1997-3-10

    Virtue as the Mean
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 7 K, Date: 1997-2-21

    Instinct and Habit: Connections between Nietzschean and Aristotelian Acquired Dispositions
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1996-12-16

    Aristotle on Responsibility
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 19 K, Date: 1995-5-1

    Is Altruism Benevolent?
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1994-12-5

    Undermining Ethics through Duty
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 1994-11-11

    OPAR Chapter 9: Happiness
    Author: Carolyn Ray, Subject: Ethics, Type: Chapter Study, Size: 28 K, Date: 1993-10-19

    OPAR Chapter 7: The Good
    Author: Eyal Mozes, Subject: Ethics, Type: Chapter Study, Size: 19 K, Date: 1993-4-1

    OPAR Chapter 6: Man
    Author: Jimmy Wales, Subject: Ethics, Type: Chapter Study, Size: 14 K, Date: 1993-3-4

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